B-type star · blue-white star

Albireo B

400 lybrightness mag 5.12B8V

Also catalogued as 6Bet2Cyg · HR 7418 · HD 183914 · HIP 95951

11,489 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

117× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

400 years

at light speed from Earth

1.99×

as hot as the Sun

117×

the Sun's light output

-0.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Albireo BB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

3 Vul →18 ly apart
HR 7540 →36 ly apart
HR 7535 →42 ly apart
HR 7505 →45 ly apart
HR 7359 →56 ly apart
HR 7530 →58 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 5.1To 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.