B-type star · blue-white star

Mu Lep

Mu Lep is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,744 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 137× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 186 years ago.

186 lybrightness mag 3.29B9IV: HgMn

Also catalogued as HR 1702 · HD 33904 · HIP 24305

11,744 K
temperature
3.29
apparent magnitude
137× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV: HgMn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
186 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
137×
the Sun's light output
-0.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To 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.