Transcript Deneb

• But Deneb may well be the most energetic
• Deneb is the brightest star in Cygnus It's
among the most distant stars visible from
Earth at an estimated 1,425 light-years
• It make more light in one day than the Sun has
since the Civil war.
Information about Deneb
• Constellation: Cygnus
Distance: 1600 light-years
Spectral class: A2
Visual magnitude: 1.25
Luminosity: 66 559 * Sun
Mass: 20 * Sun
Diameter: 116 * Sun
Radial velocity: -4.5 km/sec
Interesting facts
• In the Chinese love story Deneb is abridge
across the milky way which allows the
separated lovers Niu Lang and Zhi Nu to be
reunited on one special night of the year in
late summer
• http://www.deneb.com/
• http://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/denebamong-the-farthest-stars-to-be-seen
• http://astropixels.com/stars/Deneb-01.html
• http://neohumanism.org/d/de/deneb.html
• http://jumk.de/astronomie/bigstars/deneb.shtml