F-type star · yellow-white star
83 Aqr
83 Aqr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 209 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,386 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 209 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8782 · HD 218060 · HIP 113996
7,386 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
23.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
209 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
23.97×
the Sun's light output
1.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.