B-type star · blue-white star
14 Cyg
14 Cyg is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 652 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,986 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 239× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 652 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7483 · HD 185872 · HIP 96693
10,986 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
239× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
652 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
239×
the Sun's light output
-1.09
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.