8_Cygni

8 Cygni

8 Cygni

Star in the constellation Cygnus

8 Cygni is a single[7] star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. Based upon its parallax of 3.79 mas,[1] it is approximately 860 light-years (260 parsecs) away from Earth. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, bluish-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of about 4.7.[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −21 km/s.[4]

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This is an aging subgiant star, as indicated by its spectral type of B3IV.[3] Its effective temperature of 16,100 K fits into the normal range of B-type stars: 11,000 to 25,000 K. 8 Cygni is about twice as hot as the Sun, and it is six times larger and many times brighter in comparison.[5] The elemental abundances are near solar.[8]

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