B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Lep
Nu Lep is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 333 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,641 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 333 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1757 · HD 34863 · HIP 24873
11,641 K
temperature
5.29
apparent magnitude
69.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7/B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
333 years
at light speed from Earth
2.02×
as hot as the Sun
69.69×
the Sun's light output
0.24
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.