K-type star · orange

6 CVn

6 CVn is an orange in the constellation Canes Venatici 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,853 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 5.01G8III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 4728 · HD 108225 · HIP 60646

4,853 K
temperature
5.01
apparent magnitude
55.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
55.51×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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6 CVnK-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 490437 ly
StarHR 478342 ly
Star9 CVn42 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.