F-type star · yellow-white star

Chara

Chara is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 27.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,015 K, and it shines at 1.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 28 years ago.

27.5 lybrightness mag 4.24G0V

Also catalogued as Beta CVn · HR 4785 · HD 109358 · HIP 61317 · Gliese Gl 475

6,015 K

temperature

4.24

apparent magnitude

1.25× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

28 years

at light speed from Earth

1.04×

as hot as the Sun

1.25×

the Sun's light output

4.61

absolute magnitude

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CharaF-type

Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction

StarGroombridge 18304.8 ly

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canes Venatici

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To 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.