G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
38 LMi
38 LMi is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Leo Minor 171 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,987 K, and it shines at 11.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 171 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4168 · HD 92168 · HIP 52139
5,987 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
11.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
171 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
11.01×
the Sun's light output
2.25
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.