M-type star · red

82 Aqr

82 Aqr is a red in the constellation Aquarius 1,456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,663 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 586× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,456 years ago.

1,456 lybrightness mag 6.18M2III

Also catalogued as HR 8763 · HD 217701 · HIP 113781

3,663 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
586× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,456 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
586×
the Sun's light output
-2.07
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.