F-type star · yellow-white star
Chi Leo
Chi Leo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo 94.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,264 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 95 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4310 · HD 96097 · HIP 54182
7,264 K
temperature
4.62
apparent magnitude
10.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III-IVvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
95 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
10.39×
the Sun's light output
2.31
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.