F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5083

HR 5083 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 258 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,859 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 258 years ago.

258 lybrightness mag 6.42F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 117361 · HIP 65754

6,859 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
14.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
258 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
14.70×
the Sun's light output
1.93
absolute magnitude
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HR 5083F-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
Star21 CVn19 ly
StarLiesma35 ly
StarHR 491738 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.