B-type star · blue-white star
22 Cyg
22 Cyg is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,443 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,785× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,443 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7613 · HD 188892 · HIP 98068
11,343 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
1,785× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,443 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
1,785×
the Sun's light output
-3.28
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.