G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
94 Aqr
94 Aqr is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Aquarius 68.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,320 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 69 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8866 · HD 219834 · HIP 115126 · Gliese Gl 894.2A
5,320 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
3.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
69 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
3.23×
the Sun's light output
3.58
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.