Star profile
7 Leonis Minoris
What is 7 Leonis Minoris
7 Leonis Minoris is a yellow giant in the Lesser Lion, a star that has likely begun fusing helium in its core after exhausting its hydrogen —it has entered the horizontal branch of stellar ageing—. Swollen past thirteen solar radii, it glows warmly some five hundred light-years away. Its light set out when the first European royal observatories were being founded, in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Where it is and when to see it
7 Leonis Minoris lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 7 Leonis Minoris
- Constellation
- Leo Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.87
- Distance
- 501.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 142.680° · Dec 33.656°
- Catalogue
- HIP 46652 · HD 82087
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Other stars in Leo Minor
Leo Minor has 22 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Praecipua3.79
- Beta Leonis Minoris4.20
- 21 Leonis Minoris4.49
- 32 Leonis Minoris5.79
- 38 Leonis Minoris5.84
- HIP 498935.86
- 27 Leonis Minoris5.89
- 33 Leonis Minoris5.90