F-type star · yellow-white star

4 CVn

4 CVn is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 310 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,067 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 310 years ago.

310 lybrightness mag 6.03F3IV

Also catalogued as HR 4715 · HD 107904 · HIP 60467

7,067 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
30.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
310 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
30.54×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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4 CVnF-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 484325 ly
StarHD 10761027 ly
StarHR 459350 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.