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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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υ Cygni (upsilon Cygni)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 19:43 | Tran: 5:51 | Set: 15:54
Alt: 7.28°   Az: 320.19°   Direction: North-West

υ Cygni is a variable and multiple main-sequence star of spectral class B2 in the constellation of Cygnus.

υ Cygni visual magnitude is 4.43. Because of its moderate brightness, υ Cygni is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of υ Cygni (upsilon Cygni) star
DSS2 image of υ Cygni. The red arrow shows the motion of υ Cygni during the next 10000 years (2.33 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

21h 18m 57s
+35° 00’ 16”
08h 36m 37s
05h 55m 35s

J2000

21h 17m 55s
+34° 53’ 48”

Galactic Coordinates

80.98°
-10.05°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for υ Cygni (upsilon Cygni).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.43
Main-sequence

-2.78
B2V
11744K

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

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

Star System Properties

υ 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 υ Cygni double sysyem:

4.43
10.83
6.4
15.3 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

υ Cygni is distant 900.55 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 4 kilometers per second.

276.24
900.55
4 km/s
0.014 arcsec/y
-0.002"/y

Alternative Designations

υ Cygni
(upsilon Cygni)
SAO71173
SAO71173

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 55.0°
Max altitude: 73.5°
Azimuth: 305.0°