Star profile
42 Cygni
Highly luminous starWhat is 42 Cygni
42 Cygni is a luminous white A-type star about 2,589 light-years away, one of the most distant in this batch. It lies submerged in the rich region of Cygnus, where the Milky Way swells with dust, gas and stars. What we see tonight is light emitted just over two and a half millennia ago, when classical Greek philosophy was still flowering around the Mediterranean and nothing had yet been written about the Roman Empire.
Where it is and when to see it
42 Cygni lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 42 Cygni
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 2588.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 307.335° · Dec 36.455°
- Catalogue
- HIP 101067 · HD 195324
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Other stars in Cygnus
Cygnus has 137 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- DenebAlpha Cygni1.25
- SadrGamma Cygni2.23
- AljanahEpsilon Cygni2.48
- HIP 1010845.89
- HIP 1052695.89
- HIP 966205.89
- HIP 977745.91
- HIP 1033605.92