M-type star · red
23 Leo
23 Leo is a red in the constellation Leo 1,204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,616 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 312× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,204 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3896 · HD 85268 · HIP 48324
3,616 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
312× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,204 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
312×
the Sun's light output
-1.39
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.