A-type star · white star

17 CVn

17 CVn is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 206 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,500 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 206 years ago.

206 lybrightness mag 5.91A9III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 4971 · HD 114447 · HIP 64246

7,500 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
15.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
206 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
15.09×
the Sun's light output
1.90
absolute magnitude
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17 CVnA-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 502514 ly
Star25 CVn22 ly
StarHR 510828 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.