87 Leonis

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| dec = | appmag_v = 4.77 }}

| u-b = | b-v = +1.54 | 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 37 times the Sun's radius and is radiating over a thousand times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,001 K. Provided by Wikipedia