K-type star · orange

Phi Cyg

Phi Cyg is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 266 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,813 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 266 years ago.

266 lybrightness mag 4.68G8III-IV...

Also catalogued as HR 7478 · HD 185734 · HIP 96683

4,813 K
temperature
4.68
apparent magnitude
77.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
266 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
77.91×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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Phi CygK-type
Sky regionCygnusthis direction
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Bright stars in Cygnus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.