A-type star · white star
17 Lep
17 Lep is a white star in the constellation Lepus 909 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,194 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 728× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 909 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2148 · HD 41511 · HIP 28816
8,194 K
temperature
4.92
apparent magnitude
728× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap shell
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
909 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
728×
the Sun's light output
-2.31
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.