Astronomy and Space

29 Cygni

29 Cygni (also widely known as HIP 99770) is a single star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. It is dimly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.93. The distance to 29 Cyg, as estimated from an annual parallax shift of 24.5 mas, is 133 light years. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −17 km/s.

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See also

• ▸Deneb
• ▸Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• ▸Caelum

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