Star profile
44 Leonis
Cool red starWhat is 44 Leonis
44 Leonis is a red M-type giant cast more than a thousand light-years away, inside the regal silhouette of the Lion. Its cool surface, deeply orange through binoculars, stands apart from the white giants that dominate the constellation. The light arriving tonight left around the year 1000, at the height of the Middle Ages —even before the Arabic names of most of its bright neighbours were coined.
Where it is and when to see it
44 Leonis 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 44 Leonis
- Constellation
- Leo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.61
- Distance
- 1025.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 156.313° · Dec 8.785°
- Catalogue
- HIP 51008 · HD 90254
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Other stars in Leo
Leo has 80 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RegulusAlpha Leonis1.36
- AlgiebaGamma 1 Leonis2.01
- DenebolaBeta Leonis2.14
- 86 Leonis5.54
- HIP 471685.57
- 81 Leonis5.58
- 15 Leonis5.64
- 18 Leonis5.67