Albireo
The beak of the Swan, which a small telescope splits into a golden star and a blue one.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 3.05, the 187th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 434 light years
- Kind of star
- Orange bright giant, spectral type K3 II
- Light it gives out
- About 930 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Cygnus, where it is β Cygni
- Catalogue number
- HIP 95947
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Dumbbell NebulaA planetary nebula in Vulpecula, about a fist away.
- Ring NebulaA planetary nebula in Lyra, about a fist away.
- VegaA white main-sequence star in Lyra, about a hand span away.
- AltairA white subgiant in Aquila, about a hand span away.
- DenebA white supergiant in Cygnus, about a hand span away.