B-type star · blue-white star
69 Leo
69 Leo is a blue-white star in the constellation Leo 528 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 158× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 528 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4356 · HD 97585 · HIP 54849
10,382 K
temperature
5.40
apparent magnitude
158× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
528 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
158×
the Sun's light output
-0.65
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.