F-type star · yellow-white star

43 Cyg

43 Cyg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cygnus 123 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,223 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 123 years ago.

123 lybrightness mag 5.73F0V:

Also catalogued as HR 7828 · HD 195068 · HIP 100859

7,223 K

temperature

5.73

apparent magnitude

6.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

123 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

6.27×

the Sun's light output

2.86

absolute magnitude

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43 CygF-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.