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61 Cygni

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The 61 Cygni System
Right Ascension	21h 07m
Declination	+38° 45'
Distance	11.40 ± 0.02 ly
Star	61 Cygni A	61 Cygni B
Spectral Class	K5V	K7V
Estimated Mass	0.70 × Sol	0.63 × Sol
Luminosity	0.085 × Sol	0.039 × Sol

Star charts
61 Cygni as seen from Sol.	Sol as seen from 61 Cygni.

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Brightest stars as seen from 61 Cygni
Includes all stars of magnitude 1.00 and brighter
Star	Magnitude	Distance
Vega	−0.94	16.1
Canopus	−0.55	319.0
Altair	−0.40	9.8
Arcturus	0.03	38.0
Alpha Aurigae (Capella)	0.06	42.5
Rigel	0.20	868.6
Sirius	0.29	18.9
Betelgeuse	0.47	503.1
Achernar	0.52	144.0
Beta Centauri (Hadar)	0.65	399.5
Alpha Crucis (Acrux)	0.83	331.0
Aldebaran	0.94	68.8

Local Space

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Stargates in this system
Destination	Distance
96 Piscium	21.1
Altair	9.8
Barnard’s Star	9.3
Epsilon Indi	17.3
Sigma Draconis	11.2
Sol	11.4

Details for this system are not yet ready.

Further reading

Fictional depictions of the 61 Cygni system

Imagination is vaster than all of space.

61 Cygni in Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki).
61 Cygni in Wikipedia: Stars and planetary systems in fiction.

Nonfictional links

Just the facts.

61 Cygni A and 61 Cygni B in the ARI Database for Nearby Stars.
61 Cygni in the Bright Star Catalogue.
61 Cygni in the Internet Stellar Database.
61 Cygni A and 61 Cygni B in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database.
61 Cygni in Solstation.
61 Cygni in Stars.
61 Cygni in Wikipedia.

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