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36 Cygni

Above the horizon.  Rise: 18:24 | Tran: 5:11 | Set: 15:54
Alt: 33.66°   Az: 70.93°   Direction: East-North-East

36 Cygni is a main-sequence star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Cygnus.

36 Cygni visual magnitude is 5.58. Because of its faintness, 36 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 36 Cygni star
DSS2 image of 36 Cygni. The red arrow shows the motion of 36 Cygni during the next 10000 years (6.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and 4.17 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

20h 19m 25s
+37° 04’ 50”
18h 38m 13s
14h 57m 38s

J2000

20h 18m 28s
+37° 00’ 00”

Galactic Coordinates

75.05°
0.63°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 36 Cygni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.58
Main-sequence

1.70
A2V
9434K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 36 Cygni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 36 Cygni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

36 Cygni is distant 194.51 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 8 kilometers per second.

59.67
194.51
-8 km/s
0.037 arcsec/y
0.025"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO69803
SAO69803

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 36 Cygni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 52.9°
Max altitude: 75.6°
Azimuth: 307.1°