B-type star · blue-white star

60 Cyg

60 Cyg is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,731 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,340× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,524 years ago.

1,524 lybrightness mag 5.38B1V

Also catalogued as HR 8053 · HD 200310 · HIP 103732

13,731 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

1,340× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,524 years

at light speed from Earth

2.38×

as hot as the Sun

1,340×

the Sun's light output

-2.97

absolute magnitude

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60 CygB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.