K-type star · orange

Praecipua

Praecipua is an orange in the constellation Leo Minor 94.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,649 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 95 years ago.

94.9 lybrightness mag 3.79K0III-IV

Also catalogued as 46 LMi · HR 4247 · HD 94264 · HIP 53229

4,649 K
temperature
3.79
apparent magnitude
22.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
95 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
22.45×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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PraecipuaK-type
Sky regionLeo Minorthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Leo Minor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Leo Minor

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.