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TimezoneEurope/London
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Transit: 12:14 
Sunset: 17:05
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11 Cygni

Above the horizon.  Rise: 23:28 | Tran: 10:13 | Set: 20:55
Alt: 44.95°   Az: 83.61°   Direction: East

11 Cygni is a main-sequence star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Cygnus.

11 Cygni visual magnitude is 6.05. Because of its faintness, 11 Cygni is visible to the naked eye only from locations with very dark skies, while it is not visible at all from skies affected by light pollution.

Image of 11 Cygni star
DSS2 image of 11 Cygni. The red arrow shows the motion of 11 Cygni during the next 100000 years (13.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -3.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

19h 36m 42s
+37° 00’ 05”
19h 53m 06s
15h 29m 48s

J2000

19h 35m 48s
+36° 56’ 39”

Galactic Coordinates

70.58°
7.89°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 11 Cygni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

6.05
Main-sequence

-0.72
B8V
11744K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 11 Cygni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 11 Cygni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

11 Cygni is distant 737.56 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 15 kilometers per second.

226.24
737.56
-15 km/s
0.008 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO68552
SAO68552

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 11 Cygni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 53.0°
Max altitude: 75.5°
Azimuth: 307.0°