A-type star · white star
Zosma
Zosma is a white star in the constellation Leo 58.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,766 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 58 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Leo · HR 4357 · HD 97603 · HIP 54872 · Gliese Gl 419
8,766 K
temperature
2.56
apparent magnitude
26.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
58 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
26.45×
the Sun's light output
1.29
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.