A-type star · white star

HR 5204

HR 5204 is a white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,753 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 204 years ago.

204 lybrightness mag 6.43A7IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 120600 · HIP 67483

7,753 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

9.10× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

204 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

9.10×

the Sun's light output

2.45

absolute magnitude

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HR 5204A-type

Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction

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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.