F-type star · yellow-white star
55 Leo
55 Leo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo 146 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,750 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 146 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4265 · HD 94672 · HIP 53423
6,750 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
7.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
146 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
7.58×
the Sun's light output
2.65
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.