K-type star · orange
Algieba
Algieba is an orange in the constellation Leo 130 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,455 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 218× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 130 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma¹ Leo · HR 4057 · HD 89484 · HIP 50583
4,455 K
temperature
2.01
apparent magnitude
218× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
130 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
218×
the Sun's light output
-0.99
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.