M-type star · red

Chi Aqr

Chi Aqr is a red in the constellation Aquarius 613 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,631 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 328× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 613 years ago.

613 lybrightness mag 4.93M3III

Also catalogued as HR 8850 · HD 219576 · HIP 114939

3,631 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
328× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
613 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
328×
the Sun's light output
-1.44
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.