M-type star · red
72 Leo
72 Leo is a red in the constellation Leo 959 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,572 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 959 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4362 · HD 97778 · HIP 54951
3,572 K
temperature
4.56
apparent magnitude
1,130× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
959 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
1,130×
the Sun's light output
-2.78
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.