K-type star · orange

14 CMi

14 CMi is an orange in the constellation Canis Minor 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,910 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 242 years ago.

242 lybrightness mag 5.30K0III

Also catalogued as HR 3110 · HD 65345 · HIP 38962

4,910 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
36.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
36.24×
the Sun's light output
0.95
absolute magnitude
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14 CMiK-type
Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction
StarHR 333738 ly
StarHD 5770739 ly
StarHD 6593839 ly
StarGomeisastar
StarGamma CMistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canis Minor
Can you see it tonight?
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.