28 Cygni

28 Cygni is a single star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. It is a faint blue-white hued star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.93. The distance to 28 Cyg, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 5.3 mas, is around 620 light years. It has an absolute magnitude of −2.56, which means that if the star were just 10 parsecs (33 light-years) away it would be brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

28 Cygni

28 Cygni is a single star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. It is a faint blue-white hued star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.93. The distance to 28 Cyg, as estimated from its annual parallax shift of 5.3 mas, is around 620 light years. It has an absolute magnitude of −2.56, which means that if the star were just 10 parsecs (33 light-years) away it would be brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.