A-type star · white star
12 Lep
12 Lep is a white star in the constellation Lepus 994 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,226 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 360× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 994 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1968 · HD 38090 · HIP 26865
9,226 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
360× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
994 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
360×
the Sun's light output
-1.54
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.