F-type star · yellow-white star
42 Aql
Also catalogued as HR 7460 · HD 185124 · HIP 96556
6,729 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
5.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
105 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
5.95×
the Sun's light output
2.91
absolute magnitude
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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.