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69 Cygni

Above the horizon.  Rise: 7:44 | Tran: 18:20 | Set: 5:00
Alt: 0.14°   Az: 343.39°   Direction: North-North-West

69 Cygni is a multiple hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Cygnus.

69 Cygni visual magnitude is 5.94. Because of its faintness, 69 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 69 Cygni star
DSS2 image of 69 Cygni. The red arrow shows the motion of 69 Cygni during the next 100000 years (10.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -8.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 26m 48s
+36° 46’ 33”
10h 36m 21s
08h 03m 09s

J2000

21h 25m 46s
+36° 40’ 02”

Galactic Coordinates

83.39°
-9.96°

Finder Chart

Finder chart 69 Cygni star
Simplified finder chart for 69 Cygni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.94
Hypergiant

-3.70
B0I
11247K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 69 Cygni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 69 Cygni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

69 Cygni is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 69 Cygni double sysyem:

5.94
11.24
5.3
53.4 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

69 Cygni is distant 2,762.71 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 3 kilometers per second.

847.46
2,762.71
3 km/s
0.006 arcsec/y
-0.005"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO71329
SAO71329

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 69 Cygni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 53.2°
Max altitude: 75.3°
Azimuth: 306.8°