K-type star · orange
6 Leo
6 Leo is an orange in the constellation Leo 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,010 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 191× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3779 · HD 82381 · HIP 46774
4,010 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
191× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
191×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
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.