A-type star · white star

Zeta Lep

Zeta Lep is a white star in the constellation Lepus 70.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,989 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 70 years ago.

70.5 lybrightness mag 3.55A2Vann

Also catalogued as HR 1998 · HD 38678 · HIP 27288 · Gliese Gl 217.1

8,989 K
temperature
3.55
apparent magnitude
15.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vann
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
70 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
15.46×
the Sun's light output
1.88
absolute magnitude
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Zeta LepA-type
Sky regionLepusthis direction
StarHR 198015 ly
StarHR 174715 ly
StarNu² CMa16 ly
StarArnebstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.5To 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.