B-type star · blue-white star
Antinous
Antinous is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 286 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 339× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 286 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta Aql · HR 7710 · HD 191692 · HIP 99473
11,031 K
temperature
3.24
apparent magnitude
339× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
286 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
339×
the Sun's light output
-1.48
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.