F-type star · yellow-white star

34 Leo

34 Leo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,538 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 211 years ago.

211 lybrightness mag 6.43F7V

Also catalogued as HR 3998 · HD 88355 · HIP 49929

6,538 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

9.74× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

211 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

9.74×

the Sun's light output

2.38

absolute magnitude

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34 LeoF-type

Sky regionLeothis direction

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Leo

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.