No star has been selected yet.
You haven't picked a star yet
Back to the selector
Your star
hip-96052
Hot blue starIts story
8 Cygni lies in the body of the Swan, about 860 light-years off, a blue B-type star riding the luminous summer band of the Milky Way. Its magnitude 4.74 corresponds to a body intrinsically thousands of times more luminous than the Sun, sustained by furious nuclear reactions. When this light began its flight, Galileo had only just turned his first spyglass on the sky.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.74
- Distance
- 860.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 292.943° · Dec 34.453°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96052 · HD 184171
Take your star to the gift that suits you best.
Choose a tierSymbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.