A-type star · white star
Skat
Skat is a white star in the constellation Aquarius 161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,370 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 161 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Aqr · HR 8709 · HD 216627 · HIP 113136
9,370 K
temperature
3.27
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
161 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.19
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.