Star profile
Upsilon Leonis
What is Upsilon Leonis
Upsilon Leonis shines with a golden tone on the flank of the zodiacal lion, a yellow G-type star spectrally akin to the Sun but already deep into its giant phase. At 181 light-years away, its light has been travelling since before the Eiffel Tower was built and now arrives with the warm tinge that betrays stars whose outer layers have swollen. It is a portrait of the Sun's distant future, an early glimpse of what our solar afternoons will look like millennia upon millennia from now.
Where it is and when to see it
Upsilon Leonis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: 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 Upsilon Leonis
- Constellation
- Leo
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.30
- Distance
- 181.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 174.237° · Dec -0.824°
- Catalogue
- HIP 56647 · HD 100920
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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
- Iota Leonis4.00
- Sigma Leonis4.05
- 54 Leonis4.30
- AlterfLambda Leonis4.32
- 31 Leonis4.39