M-type star · red
46 Leo
46 Leo is a red in the constellation Leo 694 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,521 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 265× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 694 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4127 · HD 91232 · HIP 51585
3,521 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
265× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
694 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
265×
the Sun's light output
-1.21
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.