A-type star · white star

10 Lep

10 Lep is a white star in the constellation Lepus 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,978 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 272 years ago.

272 lybrightness mag 5.53A0V

Also catalogued as HR 1849 · HD 36473 · HIP 25853

9,978 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
37.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
37.05×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lepus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.