F-type star · yellow-white star
7 CVn
7 CVn is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 146 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,230 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 146 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4761 · HD 108845 · HIP 60988
6,230 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
5.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
146 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
5.73×
the Sun's light output
2.96
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.