B-type star · blue-white star

68 Cyg

brightness mag 5.04O8

Also catalogued as HR 8154 · HD 203064 · HIP 105186

10,956 K

temperature

5.04

apparent magnitude

83,945,999× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

83,945,999×

the Sun's light output

-14.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

68 CygB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8023 →23,000 ly apart
HR 8020 →30,000 ly apart
HR 8345 →36,000 ly apart
69 Cyg →42,000 ly apart
HR 8427 →53,000 ly apart
HD 207119 →54,000 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 5.0To 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.