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Leo, with Leo Minor above, as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825. Leo is also home to a bright variable star, the red giant R Leonis. It is a Mira variable with a minimum magnitude of 10 and normal maximum magnitude of 6; it periodically brightens to magnitude 4.4.
Leo (♌︎) (Ancient Greek: Λέων, romanized: Léōn, Latin for "lion") is the fifth sign of the zodiac. It corresponds to the constellation Leo and comes after Cancer and before Virgo . The traditional Western zodiac associates Leo with the period between about July 23 and August 22, [ 2 ] and the sign spans the 120th to 150th degree of ...
Regulus is the brightest object in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation designated α Leonis, which is Latinized to Alpha Leonis, and abbreviated Alpha Leo or α Leo. Regulus appears singular, but is actually a quadruple star system composed of four stars that are organized into two ...
Theta Leonis, Latinized from θ Leonis, formally named Chertan, [10] is a star in the constellation of Leo.With an apparent visual magnitude of +3.324 [2] it is visible to the naked eye and forms one of the brighter stars in the constellation.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Leo, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F G. Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes ...
Positions of stars Denebola and Regulus in Leo. Denebola is a white main sequence star in the constellation Leo. With a distance of 36 light years from Earth, and an apparent magnitude of 2.14, [25] it is the third brightest star in the constellation and the 62nd in the night sky. [14] This star has often taken the place of Regulus in the ...
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Wolf 359 is shown near the ecliptic in the southern region of Leo. Wolf 359 is a red dwarf star located in the constellation Leo , near the ecliptic . At a distance of 7.86 light-years (2.41 parsecs ) from Earth , it has an apparent magnitude of 13.54 and can only be seen with a large telescope .