Star profile
14 Cygni
Hot blue starWhat is 14 Cygni
14 Cygni glows hot and blue at the heart of the Swan, inside the corridor of the Orion Arm. It is a massive B-type star whose light, emitted more than six centuries ago —before the fall of Constantinople— now crosses the telescope's mirrors. Its surface comfortably exceeds ten thousand degrees, a temperature that paints it the pure blue of the youngest and most vigorous stars.
Where it is and when to see it
14 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 14 Cygni
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.41
- Distance
- 652.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 294.860° · Dec 42.818°
- Catalogue
- HIP 96693 · HD 185872
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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
- 27 Cygni5.38
- 9 Cygni5.39
- 51 Cygni5.41
- Omega 2 Cygni5.44
- HIP 981945.46