A-type star · white star

25 CVn

25 CVn is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,873 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 199 years ago.

199 lybrightness mag 4.82A7III

Also catalogued as HR 5127 · HD 118623 · HIP 66458

7,873 K
temperature
4.82
apparent magnitude
38.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
199 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
38.12×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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25 CVnA-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 520410 ly
StarHR 502515 ly
Star17 CVn22 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.