Star profile
17 Canum Venaticorum
What is 17 Canum Venaticorum
17 Canum Venaticorum shines about 207 light-years away in the Hunting Dogs, a constellation that Hevelius drafted in the 17th century to accompany the Herdsman in his endless chase around the celestial pole. A-type, its light is white and its surface hotter than the Sun's; easily overlooked by the unaided eye, it shares the sky with the spiral galaxy M51 —the Whirlpool— and with distant globulars such as M3.
Where it is and when to see it
17 Canum Venaticorum lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 17 Canum Venaticorum
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.91
- Distance
- 206.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 197.513° · Dec 38.499°
- Catalogue
- HIP 64246 · HD 114447
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Other stars in Canes Venatici
Canes Venatici has 33 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Cor CaroliAlpha 2 Canum Venaticorum2.89
- CharaBeta Canum Venaticorum4.24
- 24 Canum Venaticorum4.68
- HIP 655505.88
- HIP 671945.88
- HIP 676055.89
- HIP 677825.91
- HIP 672105.92