B-type star · blue-white star

70 Cyg

1,305 lybrightness mag 5.30B3V

Also catalogued as HR 8215 · HD 204403 · HIP 105942

12,293 K

temperature

5.30

apparent magnitude

1,057× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,305 years

at light speed from Earth

2.13×

as hot as the Sun

1,057×

the Sun's light output

-2.71

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

70 CygB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 202710 →180 ly apart
HR 8248 →200 ly apart
HR 8064 →220 ly apart
HR 8120 →240 ly apart
HR 8107 →270 ly apart
HR 7988 →270 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.