A-type star · white star

56 Cyg

134 lybrightness mag 5.06A4me...

Also catalogued as HR 7984 · HD 198639 · HIP 102843

8,179 K

temperature

5.06

apparent magnitude

13.83× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4me...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

134 years

at light speed from Earth

1.42×

as hot as the Sun

13.83×

the Sun's light output

2.00

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

56 CygA-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

43 Cyg →18 ly apart
73Rho Cyg →20 ly apart
HR 7972 →20 ly apart
29 Cyg →24 ly apart
HR 7756 →26 ly apart
HR 8208 →28 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.