A-type star · white star

76 Cyg

496 lybrightness mag 6.07A2V

Also catalogued as HR 8291 · HD 206538 · HIP 107097

9,349 K

temperature

6.07

apparent magnitude

75.30× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

496 years

at light speed from Earth

1.62×

as hot as the Sun

75.30×

the Sun's light output

0.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

76 CygA-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8338 →31 ly apart
HR 8320 →43 ly apart
HR 8407 →48 ly apart
HR 8485 →55 ly apart
HR 8272 →65 ly apart
HR 8036 →71 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.