F-type star · yellow-white star
13 LMi
13 LMi is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo Minor 174 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,956 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 174 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3857 · HD 83951 · HIP 47631
6,956 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
8.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
174 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
8.81×
the Sun's light output
2.49
absolute magnitude
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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.