B-type star · blue-white star

8 Lep

8 Lep is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 1,647 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,061 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,765× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,647 years ago.

1,647 lybrightness mag 5.25B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 1783 · HD 35337 · HIP 25202

14,061 K

temperature

5.25

apparent magnitude

1,765× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,647 years

at light speed from Earth

2.44×

as hot as the Sun

1,765×

the Sun's light output

-3.27

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.