K-type star · orange
48 Leo
48 Leo is an orange in the constellation Leo 266 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,941 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 266 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4146 · HD 91612 · HIP 51775
4,941 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
54.35× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
266 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
54.35×
the Sun's light output
0.51
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.