K-type star · orange

Rho Cyg

Rho Cyg is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 124 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,037 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 124 years ago.

124 lybrightness mag 3.98G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8252 · HD 205435 · HIP 106481

5,037 K
temperature
3.98
apparent magnitude
32.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
124 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
32.00×
the Sun's light output
1.09
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.