72-Cyg (Star)
R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 30 arcminutes across.
From Cambridge , 72-Cyg is visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 19:54 (EDT), 61° above your eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 22:25, 86° above your southern horizon. It will continue to be observable until around 04:57, when it sinks below 19° above your north-western horizon.
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Name
72-Cyg
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Object type
Star
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Other names
Position
| Right ascension: | 21h34m46s [4] |
| Declination: | +38°32'04" [4] |
| Constellation: | Cygnus |
| Magnitude: | 4.87 (V) [2] 6.27 (BT) [2] 4.99 (VT) [2] 4.57 (G) [4] 5.11 (BP) [4] 3.88 (RP) [4] |
| Distance: | 71.4 parsec 232.7 lightyrs [4] |
| B-V Color (mag): | 1.09 |
| Proper motion (speed): | 150.4 mas/yr[4] |
| Proper motion (pos ang): | 48.6° |
Derived quantities
| Absolute mag (V): | 0.61 |
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