72 cygni is a star in the northern constellation of cygnus, located 299 light years from the sun and a member of the hercules stream. it is visible to the naked eye as a fain, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.87. 72 cyg is moving closer to the earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −68 km/s. it has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of per year.