B-type star · blue-white star
Iota Lep
Iota Lep is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,556 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 232 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1696 · HD 33802 · HIP 24244
11,556 K
temperature
4.45
apparent magnitude
73.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
2.00×
as hot as the Sun
73.05×
the Sun's light output
0.19
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.