K-type star · orange
85 Leo
85 Leo is an orange in the constellation Leo 438 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,998 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 438 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4426 · HD 99902 · HIP 56080
3,998 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
79.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
438 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
79.36×
the Sun's light output
0.10
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.