A-type star · white star

HR 5179

171 lybrightness mag 5.88A5V

Also catalogued as HD 120047 · HIP 67194

8,079 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

10.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

171 years

at light speed from Earth

1.40×

as hot as the Sun

10.70×

the Sun's light output

2.28

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5179A-type

Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5347 →19 ly apart
HR 5110 →26 ly apart
HR 5335 →27 ly apart
24 CVn →27 ly apart
25 CVn →32 ly apart
33 Boo →35 ly apart

Bright stars in Canes Venatici

Cor Caroli →mag 2.9
Chara →mag 4.2
24 CVn →mag 4.7
20 CVn →mag 4.7
5 CVn →mag 4.8
25 CVn →mag 4.8
6 CVn →mag 5.0
21 CVn →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.