M-type star · red
75 Cyg
75 Cyg is a red in the constellation Cygnus 404 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,648 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 123× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 404 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8284 · HD 206330 · HIP 106999
3,648 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
123× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
404 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
123×
the Sun's light output
-0.37
absolute magnitude
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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.