A-type star · white star
49 Leo
49 Leo is a white star in the constellation Leo 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,444 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4148 · HD 91636 · HIP 51802
9,444 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
81.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
81.13×
the Sun's light output
0.08
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.