BC Cygni
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bc-cygni-173-15119541
title:
BC Cygni
text:
BC Cygni is a red supergiant and pulsating variable star of spectral type M3.5Ia in the constellation Cygnus. It is considered a member of the stellar Cygnus OB1 association, and within it the open cluster Berkeley 87, which would place at a distance of 1,673 parsecs (5,000 ly) of the Solar System; it is less than a degree north of another variable red supergiant, BI Cygni. According to its Gaia Data Release 3 parallax, it is at about 1,700 pc. BC Cygni was found to have a luminosity of 145,000
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wiki
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description:
Star in the constellation Cygnus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Cygni
date created:
2016-06-20T11:43:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T12:14:24Z
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fields total:
13
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16