K-type star · orange

26 Cyg

26 Cyg is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 434 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 146× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 434 years ago.

434 lybrightness mag 5.06K1II-III

Also catalogued as HR 7660 · HD 190147 · HIP 98571

4,468 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
146× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
434 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
146×
the Sun's light output
-0.56
absolute magnitude
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26 CygK-type
Sky regionCygnusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.