★ Star Procyon | Nearby stars catalogue

Binary star Procyon is located 11.5 light years away from the Sun. It is a system with 2 stars. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this system.

Procyon A

White-Blue star (spectral class F5 V)

Mass: 1.5 M Sun

Size: 2.048 R Sun

Temperature: 6474 K | 1.12 T Sun

Age: 1.87 billions years | 0.41 Sun

Luminosity: 6.93 L Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 0.37

(No known exoplanets yet)

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

Procyon B

White dwarf (spectral class DQZ)

Mass: 0.602 M Sun

Size: 0.01234 R Sun | 0.1 R Jupiter

Age: 1.37 billions years | 0.3 Sun

Luminosity: 0.00049 L Sun

(No known exoplanets yet)

More about Procyon

      Nearby star Procyon can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, and it is possible to see it with naked eye. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia.

Other designations of this star
Elgomaisa, Algomeysa, Antecanis, α Canis Minoris, Alpha Canis Minoris, 10 Canis Minoris, BD+05°1739, Gliese 280, GJ 280, HD 37279, HIC 30438, HIP 30438, HR 2943, SAO 115756, LHS 233, alf CMi

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Distance (Light Years)		Mass (Solar mass)	Planets


1.1	Luytens Star	0.26 M_☉	4

3.1	WISE J0722-0540	0.02 M_☉

4.5	Ross 614	0.22 M_☉ 0.11 M_☉

5	DX Cancri	0.09 M_☉

5.2	Sirius	2.06 M_☉ 1.02 M_☉

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