B-type star · blue-white star

14 CVn

14 CVn is a blue-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 340 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,926 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 340 years ago.

340 lybrightness mag 5.20B9V

Also catalogued as HR 4943 · HD 113797 · HIP 63901

10,926 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
78.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
340 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
78.92×
the Sun's light output
0.11
absolute magnitude
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14 CVnB-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 496413 ly
StarHR 487528 ly
Star41 Com49 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.