F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 5245

HR 5245 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canes Venatici 220 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,875 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 220 years ago.

220 lybrightness mag 6.31F4IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 121682 · HIP 68065

6,875 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
11.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
220 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
11.81×
the Sun's light output
2.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 5245F-type
Sky regionCanes Venaticithis direction
StarHR 522914 ly
StarHR 520424 ly
StarHR 536126 ly
StarCor Carolistar
StarCharastar
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Bright stars in Canes Venatici
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.