A-type star · white star

Eta CMi

Eta CMi is a white star in the constellation Canis Minor 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,004 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 5.22F0III

Also catalogued as HR 2851 · HD 58923 · HIP 36265

8,004 K

temperature

5.22

apparent magnitude

67.67× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

318 years

at light speed from Earth

1.39×

as hot as the Sun

67.67×

the Sun's light output

0.27

absolute magnitude

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Eta CMiA-type

Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Minor

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Minor

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.