G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

11 LMi

11 LMi is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Leo Minor 37.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,373 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 37 years ago.

37.1 lybrightness mag 5.40G8IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 3815 · HD 82885 · HIP 47080 · Gliese Gl 356A

5,373 K

temperature

5.40

apparent magnitude

0.78× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

37 years

at light speed from Earth

0.93×

as hot as the Sun

0.78×

the Sun's light output

5.12

absolute magnitude

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11 LMiG-type

Sky regionLeo Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Leo Minor

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Leo Minor

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.