87 Leonis

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| dec = | appmag_v = 4.77 }}

| b-v = | u-b = +1.83 | r-i = +0.84 }}

| prop_mo_ra = 20.901 | prop_mo_dec = −17.944 | parallax = 6.7249 | p_error = 0.2901 | parallax_footnote = | absmag_v = −1.56 }}

| gravity = | metal_fe = | rotational_velocity = ≤ 19 | age_myr = }}

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87 Leonis is a single star in the zodiac constellation of Leo, located approximately 480 light years away from the Sun. It has the Bayer designation e Leonis; ''87 Leonis'' is the Flamsteed designation. This object is visible by the naked eye as a faint orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.77. It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 19 km/s. The star is positioned near the ecliptic and thus is subject to occultation by the Moon.

This is an aging K-type giant star with a stellar classification of , which means it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence. The suffix notation indicates a mild underabundance of iron in the atmosphere. It has expanded to 54 times the Sun's radius and is radiating around 641 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,001 K. Provided by Wikipedia