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Loading contentInquill is a yellow dwarf in the constellation Ara (Arae), lying about 178.72 light-years from Earth.
Class G. Yellow stars like the Sun. On the main sequence they steadily fuse hydrogen into helium. Such stars have surface temperatures around 5,200–6,000 K and appear yellow to the eye.
| Spectral type | G1Vw... |
| Luminosity class | V |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.67 |
| Absolute magnitude | 2.98 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 5.618 |
| Colour index (B−V) | 0.614 |
| Distance | 178.72 ly (54.79 pc) |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A yellow dwarf is a G-type main-sequence star like the Sun. After about ten billion years it will swell into a red giant and finally leave behind a white dwarf.
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Aggregated, openly-licensed star catalogue combining Hipparcos, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
High-precision parallax, magnitude, and position for ~118,000 stars.