K-type star · orange dwarf
65 Leo
65 Leo is an orange dwarf in the constellation Leo 206 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,853 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 206 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4319 · HD 96436 · HIP 54336
4,853 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
21.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
206 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
21.56×
the Sun's light output
1.52
absolute magnitude
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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.