A-type star · white star

11 CVn

11 CVn is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 449 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,202 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 449 years ago.

449 lybrightness mag 6.25A6m

Also catalogued as HR 4866 · HD 111421 · HIP 62516

8,202 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

52.10× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

449 years

at light speed from Earth

1.42×

as hot as the Sun

52.10×

the Sun's light output

0.56

absolute magnitude

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11 CVnA-type

Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction

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Bright stars in Canes Venatici

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canes Venatici

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.