B-type star · blue-white star

15 CVn

15 CVn is a blue-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 1,208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 378× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,208 years ago.

1,208 lybrightness mag 6.25B7III

Also catalogued as HR 4967 · HD 114376 · HIP 64217

11,539 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

378× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,208 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

378×

the Sun's light output

-1.59

absolute magnitude

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15 CVnB-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.