Rho Cygni is a yellow-hued star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from ρ Cygni and abbreviated Rho Cyg or ρ Cyg. This star is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.02. The measured annual parallax shift is , which yields a distance estimate of 124 light years. It is moving further from the Sun with a radial velocity of +6.88. The star is a member of the thin disk population of the Milky Way galaxy.
This is an evolved giant star of type G with an estimated age of 660 million years and a stellar classification of . The suffix notation indicates the spectrum shows a mild underabundance of iron in the outer atmosphere. It has about 2.16 times the mass of the Sun and 7.81 times the Sun's girth. The star is radiating 37 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,100 K.
Rho Cygni is a bright X-ray source with a luminosity of . It has a maximum magnetic field strength of at the surface.
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