B-type star · blue-white star

59 Cyg

59 Cyg is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,311 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,091× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,418 years ago.

1,418 lybrightness mag 4.74B1ne

Also catalogued as HR 8047 · HD 200120 · HIP 103632

11,311 K

temperature

4.74

apparent magnitude

2,091× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1ne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,418 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

2,091×

the Sun's light output

-3.45

absolute magnitude

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59 CygB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To 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.