The names Aljanah and Gienah both mean 'the wing', and Cygnus the Swan is the not the only bird-constellation to have a star with this name. The other is in Corvus, the Crow, whose Gammastar is also named Gienah. The two stars are sometimes designated Gienah Cygni and Gienah Corvi to avoid confusion.
Less than half a degree to the north of Aljanah is T Cygni, another orangegiant like Aljanah itself, but considerably more distant and considerably more luminous. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas
One of two stars (the other being Fawaris or Delta Cygni) that together define the outstretched wings of Cygnus the Swan. Aljanah is a triplestar almost eighty light years from the Sun, consisting of an inner binary pair with a much more distant companion that is likely also a member of the system.
Aljanah is an orangegiant some eleven times greater in diameter than the Sun. It has a low-mass companion star in a highly eccentricorbit which, every fifty-three years, approaches the giant to a distance comparable with that of Earth from the Sun.
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