A-type star · white star

11 CMi

11 CMi is a white star in the constellation Canis Minor 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,906 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.

301 lybrightness mag 5.25A1Vnn

Also catalogued as HR 3008 · HD 62832 · HIP 37921

9,906 K

temperature

5.25

apparent magnitude

59.10× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1Vnn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

301 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

59.10×

the Sun's light output

0.42

absolute magnitude

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11 CMiA-type

Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Minor

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Minor

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.