F-type star · yellow-white star
44 LMi
44 LMi is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo Minor 283 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,886 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 283 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4230 · HD 93765 · HIP 52959
6,886 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
24.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
283 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
24.87×
the Sun's light output
1.36
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.