The Stars of The Summer Triangle
| Name | Constellation | Apparent magnitude | Luminosity (× solar) |
Spectral type | Distance (light years) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vega | Lyra | 0.03 | 52 | A0 | 25 |
| Deneb | Cygnus | 1.25 | 70000 | A2 | 1550 |
| Altair | Aquila | 0.77 | 10 | A7 | 16.6 |
Read more about this topic: Summer Triangle
Famous quotes containing the words stars and/or summer:
“It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I swear,
I most solemnly swear, on all the bric-à-brac
of summer loves, I know
you not.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)