K-type star · orange
28 LMi
28 LMi is an orange in the constellation Leo Minor 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,336 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 424 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4081 · HD 90040 · HIP 50935
4,336 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
91.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
424 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
91.20×
the Sun's light output
-0.05
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.