K-type star · orange
Beta LMi
Beta LMi is an orange in the constellation Leo Minor 154 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,975 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 154 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4100 · HD 90537 · HIP 51233
4,975 K
temperature
4.20
apparent magnitude
40.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
40.51×
the Sun's light output
0.83
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.