K-type star · orange
5 CVn
5 CVn is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,059 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 152× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4716 · HD 107950 · HIP 60485
5,059 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
152× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
386 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
152×
the Sun's light output
-0.61
absolute magnitude
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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.