A-type star · white star

64 Leo

64 Leo is a white star in the constellation Leo 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 253 years ago.

253 lybrightness mag 6.48A5m

Also catalogued as HR 4322 · HD 96528 · HIP 54388

8,453 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

13.37× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

253 years

at light speed from Earth

1.46×

as hot as the Sun

13.37×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.