A-type star · white star
Nu Cyg
Nu Cyg is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 374 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,800 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 305× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 374 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8028 · HD 199629 · HIP 103413
9,800 K
temperature
3.94
apparent magnitude
305× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
374 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
305×
the Sun's light output
-1.36
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.