A-type star · white star
20 Leo
20 Leo is a white star in the constellation Leo 625 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,747 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 625 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3889 · HD 85040 · HIP 48218
7,747 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
116× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
625 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
116×
the Sun's light output
-0.31
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.