A-type star · white star

33 Cyg

33 Cyg is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 159 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,895 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 159 years ago.

159 lybrightness mag 4.28A3IV-Vn

Also catalogued as HR 7740 · HD 192696 · HIP 99655

8,895 K
temperature
4.28
apparent magnitude
40.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV-Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
159 years
at light speed from Earth
1.54×
as hot as the Sun
40.29×
the Sun's light output
0.84
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.