White-hued hydrogen-burning star in the constellation Aquarius
19 Aquarii is a star in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius . With an apparent magnitude of about 5.7,[ 2] the star is barely visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star (see Bortle scale ). Parallax estimates put it at a distance of about 260 light years away from the Sun.[ 1] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −21 km/s.[ 5]
This object is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A8V.[ 3] It is around 788[ 7] million years old with a fairly fast rotation rate, as its projected rotational velocity is about 155 km/s,[ 8] so it must be rotating at least that fast. It has 1.86[ 7] times the mass of the Sun and 2.76[ 1] times the Sun's radius . 19 Aquarii is radiating 26[ 1] times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,078 K.[ 7] Eggen has this star flagged as a blue straggler and a member of the HR1614 supercluster.[ 10]
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