Star profile

14 Canis Minoris

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is 14 Canis Minoris

14 Canis Minoris inhabits the Lesser Dog, the small hound that trails Orion alongside his greater brother. It is an orange K-type giant some 242 light-years away, an already evolved star whose colour betrays a surface cooler and a radius far greater than the Sun's. Its light began travelling around 1784, when William Herschel had just founded modern stellar astronomy with his great reflecting telescope.

Where it is and when to see it

14 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it culminates about 41° above the horizon.
From New York it culminates about 52° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 54° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 88° S.

It ranks no. 11 in brightness among the 25 stars of Canis Minor in our catalogue. To find it, start from Procyon, the brightest: it lies about 6° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 240 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 14 Canis Minoris

Constellation: Canis Minor
Apparent magnitude: 5.30
Distance: 241.6 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 119.586° · Dec 2.225°
Catalogue: HIP 38962 · HD 65345

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Other stars in Canis Minor

Canis Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 25 stars in Canis Minor