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Fawaris

δ Cyg. Magnitude 2.87, white. Comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky.

The numbers

Designationδ Cyg
Magnitude2.87
Colourwhite
Right ascension19.750h
Declination+45.13°
B−V index-0.03
CatalogueHR 7528

What you are looking at

Astronomers call it δ Cyg — the Bayer designation, which reads as a Greek letter ranking its brightness within its constellation. Fawaris is the name people actually use.

Fawaris shines at magnitude 2.87, making it comfortably visible to the naked eye from a suburban sky. Its B−V colour index of -0.03 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 19.75 hours and declination +45.1°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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