F-type star · yellow-white star
Cor Caroli B
Cor Caroli B is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 120 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,235 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 120 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha¹ CVn · HR 4914 · HD 112412 · HIP 63121
7,235 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
6.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
120 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
6.76×
the Sun's light output
2.77
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.