G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

Ras Elased Australis

Ras Elased Australis is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Leo 247 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,257 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 323× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 247 years ago.

247 lybrightness mag 2.97G0II

Also catalogued as Epsilon Leo · HR 3873 · HD 84441 · HIP 47908

5,257 K

temperature

2.97

apparent magnitude

323× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

247 years

at light speed from Earth

0.91×

as hot as the Sun

323×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

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Ras Elased AustralisG-type

Sky regionLeothis direction

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Bright stars in Leo

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Leo

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.