K-type star · orange

49 Cyg

49 Cyg is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 797 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,075 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 319× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 797 years ago.

797 lybrightness mag 5.53G8IIb

Also catalogued as HR 7921 · HD 197177 · HIP 102066

5,075 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
319× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IIb
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
797 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
319×
the Sun's light output
-1.41
absolute magnitude
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49 CygK-type
Sky regionCygnusthis direction
Star41 Cyg52 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.