hip-103732

Variable star

Its story

60 Cygni is a blue type-B variable embedded in the Swan, about 1500 light-years away along the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. Its surface easily exceeds twenty thousand degrees, and its brightness drifts slightly over time. The light reaching Earth tonight set out deep in the Middle Ages, when the first Romanesque monasteries were still being raised.

Constellation: Cygnus
Apparent magnitude: 5.38
Distance: 1524.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 315.296° · Dec 46.156°
Catalogue: HIP 103732 · HD 200310

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