K-type star · orange

Epsilon Lep

Epsilon Lep is an orange in the constellation Lepus 213 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,855 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 197× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 213 years ago.

213 lybrightness mag 3.19K4III

Also catalogued as HR 1654 · HD 32887 · HIP 23685

3,855 K
temperature
3.19
apparent magnitude
197× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
213 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
197×
the Sun's light output
-0.89
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon LepK-type
Sky regionLepusthis direction
StarHR 162118 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.2To 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.