A-type star · white star

21 LMi

21 LMi is a white star in the constellation Leo Minor 92.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,241 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 92 years ago.

92.1 lybrightness mag 4.49A7V

Also catalogued as HR 3974 · HD 87696 · HIP 49593 · Gliese Gl 378.3

8,241 K

temperature

4.49

apparent magnitude

11.11× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

92 years

at light speed from Earth

1.43×

as hot as the Sun

11.11×

the Sun's light output

2.24

absolute magnitude

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21 LMiA-type

Sky regionLeo Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Leo Minor

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To 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.