A-type star · white star
48 LMi
48 LMi is a white star in the constellation Leo Minor 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,520 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 388 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4254 · HD 94480 · HIP 53355
7,520 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
41.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
41.15×
the Sun's light output
0.81
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.