How many stars are in the constellation Cygnus?

school projectHow many stars are in the constellation Cygnus?http://www.stellarium.org/

This is great freeware that you can download. Tell it where you are and it will tell you what you see. Ask it where something is and it will tell you. Use this free program to answer this question for yourself plus many more that you will have in the future. I hope that you enjoy it.How many stars are in the constellation Cygnus?Since an arm of the Milky Way is behind that very large constellation, I would say many millions if not billions of stars are in it. Just a wide field shot of the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus loop (a very small part of Cygnus) shows them beyond counting. http://www.starrywonders.com/cygnusloop.鈥?/a>

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But if you connect the brightest stars forming the shape of the swan or the Northern Cross asterism, then the total would be less than a dozen.How many stars are in the constellation Cygnus?tryHow many stars are in the constellation Cygnus?
without a limiting magnitude, this question cannot be answered.



why do teachers keep assigning this stupid question?