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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 5:12 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:41
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9 Cygni

Above the horizon.  Rise: 20:08 | Tran: 5:11 | Set: 14:09
Alt: 13.86°   Az: 300.33°   Direction: West-North-West

9 Cygni is a double giant star of spectral class F8 in the constellation of Cygnus.

9 Cygni visual magnitude is 5.38. Because of its faintness, 9 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 9 Cygni star
DSS2 image of 9 Cygni. The red arrow shows the motion of 9 Cygni during the next 10000 years (2.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and 4.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

19h 35m 51s
+29° 31’ 12”
07h 02m 29s
02h 38m 20s

J2000

19h 34m 50s
+29° 27’ 47”

Galactic Coordinates

63.87°
4.5°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 9 Cygni.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

5.38
Giant

-0.71
F8III
6170K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 9 Cygni is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 9 Cygni. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

9 Cygni is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 9 Cygni double sysyem:

5.38
5.88
0.5
0.1 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

9 Cygni is distant 537.95 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

165.02
537.95
-11 km/s
0.015 arcsec/y
0.024"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO87385
SAO87385

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 9 Cygni rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 60.5°
Max altitude: 68.0°
Azimuth: 299.5°