Star profile
6 Canis Minoris
What is 6 Canis Minoris
6 Canis Minoris holds a discreet place in the Lesser Dog, the compact constellation tucked beside Procyon. It is an orange giant 572 light-years away —a star that has crossed the threshold of stellar middle age and now burns redder, broader, and calmer than the Sun. Its muted glow contrasts with Procyon's piercing white nearby: two ways of growing old as a star, visible in a single glance.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Canis Minoris lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 6 Canis Minoris
- Constellation
- Canis Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.55
- Distance
- 572.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 112.449° · Dec 12.007°
- Catalogue
- HIP 36425 · HD 59294
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Other stars in Canis Minor
Canis Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ProcyonAlpha Canis Minoris0.40
- GomeisaBeta Canis Minoris2.89
- Gamma Canis Minoris4.33
- HIP 393114.39
- Epsilon Canis Minoris4.99
- Zeta Canis Minoris5.12
- Eta Canis Minoris5.22
- Delta 1 Canis Minoris5.24