Procyon
The brightest star of the Little Dog, close to the Sun, with a faint white dwarf beside it.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 0.4, the 8th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 11.5 light years
- Kind of star
- Yellow-white subgiant, spectral type F5 IV-V
- Light it gives out
- About 7.4 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Canis Minor, where it is α Canis Minoris
- Catalogue number
- HIP 37279
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources