F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota Leo
Iota Leo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo 77.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,760 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 77 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4399 · HD 99028 · HIP 55642
6,760 K
temperature
4.00
apparent magnitude
12.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
77 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
12.26×
the Sun's light output
2.13
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.