K-type star · orange

Xi Leo

Xi Leo is an orange in the constellation Leo 216 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,635 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 216 years ago.

216 lybrightness mag 4.99K0IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 3782 · HD 82395 · HIP 46771

4,635 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
38.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
216 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
38.41×
the Sun's light output
0.89
absolute magnitude
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Xi LeoK-type
Sky regionLeothis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Leo

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.