Star profile
69 Cygni
Hot blue starWhat is 69 Cygni
69 Cygni belongs to the rarest set of Flamsteed stars charted at distances exceeding the Milky Way itself: placed at some 326,000 light-years away, it still shines at magnitude 5.93 within the field of the Swan. For a B-class star to remain visible to the naked eye from such an abyss, its luminosity must exceed the Sun's by orders of magnitude —the mark of an extreme supergiant. The light settling on the eye tonight left its atmosphere long before the last glacial period.
Where it is and when to see it
69 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 September: 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 69 Cygni
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.93
- Distance
- 326200.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 321.446° · Dec 36.667°
- Catalogue
- HIP 105811 · HD 204172
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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 1033605.92
- HIP 983835.92
- HIP 1039565.93
- HIP 969775.93
- HIP 1005015.95