K-type star · orange

Zeta Cyg

Zeta Cyg is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 143 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,767 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 143 years ago.

143 lybrightness mag 3.21G8II SB

Also catalogued as HR 8115 · HD 202109 · HIP 104732

4,767 K
temperature
3.21
apparent magnitude
87.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
143 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
87.18×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.2To 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.