Vega (HIP 91262)
Vega is a white main-sequence star in the constellation Lyra. At 25 light years away, it is the 5th brightest star in the Earth's sky, where it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 0.03. Vega is the primary component of a multiple-star system. The iron abundance of Vega is -0.56 (27.5% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 24.2 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 23,900 and 25,400 light years from the center of the Galaxy. It will come closest to the Sun 264,000 years from now when it will brighten to magnitude -1.37 from a distance of 13.2 light years. Vega has no confirmed planets known to date (July 2013), but does have a circumstellar debris disk.
Sky position: RA 18h 36.9m, Dec +38° 46.8'
