K-type star · orange
8 LMi
8 LMi is an orange in the constellation Leo Minor 480 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,730 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 131× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 480 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3769 · HD 82198 · HIP 46735
3,730 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
480 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
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.