A-type star · white star
59 Leo
59 Leo is a white star in the constellation Leo 151 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,436 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 151 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4294 · HD 95382 · HIP 53824
8,436 K
temperature
4.98
apparent magnitude
19.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
151 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
19.07×
the Sun's light output
1.65
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.