F-type star · yellow-white star
Gamma Lep
Gamma Lep is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lepus 29.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,476 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 29 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1983 · HD 38393 · HIP 27072 · Gliese Gl 216A
6,476 K
temperature
3.59
apparent magnitude
2.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
29 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
2.54×
the Sun's light output
3.84
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.