M-type star · red

63 Cyg

63 Cyg is a red in the constellation Cygnus 1,032 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,693 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,309× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,032 years ago.

1,032 lybrightness mag 4.56K4II

Also catalogued as HR 8089 · HD 201251 · HIP 104194

3,693 K

temperature

4.56

apparent magnitude

1,309× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,032 years

at light speed from Earth

0.64×

as hot as the Sun

1,309×

the Sun's light output

-2.94

absolute magnitude

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63 CygM-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To 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.