F-type star · yellow-white star
17 Cyg
17 Cyg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cygnus 69.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,500 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 69 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7534 · HD 187013 · HIP 97295 · Gliese Gl 767.1A
6,500 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
3.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
69 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
3.93×
the Sun's light output
3.37
absolute magnitude
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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.