G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
16 Cyg
16 Cyg is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cygnus 68.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,804 K, and it shines at 1.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 69 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7503 · HD 186408 · HIP 96895 · Gliese Gl 765.1A
5,804 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
1.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
69 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
1.55×
the Sun's light output
4.37
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.