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Loading content12 Canum Venaticorum
Cor Caroli is a main-sequence star in the constellation Canes Venatici (Canum Venaticorum), lying about 114.8 light-years from Earth.
Class A. White stars with strong hydrogen lines. Many of the brightest stars in the sky are class A. Such stars have surface temperatures around 7,500–10,000 K and appear white to the eye.
| Spectral type | A0spe... |
| Apparent magnitude | 2.89 |
| Absolute magnitude | 0.16 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 75.37 |
| Colour index (B−V) | -0.115 |
| Distance | 114.8 ly (35.2 pc) |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A main-sequence star fuses hydrogen into helium in its core. It will remain on the main sequence for most of its life before evolving into a giant.
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Aggregated, openly-licensed star catalogue combining Hipparcos, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
High-precision parallax, magnitude, and position for ~118,000 stars.