B-type star · blue-white star
48 Cyg
Also catalogued as HR 7885 · HD 196606 · HIP 101765
11,391 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
177× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IIIn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
854 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
177×
the Sun's light output
-0.77
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.