M-type star · red
44 Leo
44 Leo is a red in the constellation Leo 1,026 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,608 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 491× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,026 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4088 · HD 90254 · HIP 51008
3,608 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
491× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2IIIs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,026 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
491×
the Sun's light output
-1.88
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.