K-type star · orange
56 Leo
56 Leo is an orange in the constellation Leo 389 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,202 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 389 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4267 · HD 94705 · HIP 53449
4,202 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
53.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
389 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
53.51×
the Sun's light output
0.53
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.