F-type star · yellow-white star

Pi CMa

Pi CMa is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canis Major 96.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,022 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 96 years ago.

96.5 lybrightness mag 4.66F2IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 2590 · HD 51199 · HIP 33302

7,022 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
10.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
96 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
10.42×
the Sun's light output
2.31
absolute magnitude
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Pi CMaF-type
Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction
StarHR 249315 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.