A-type star · white star
Arneb
Arneb is a white star in the constellation Lepus 2,219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,079 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37,428× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,219 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha Lep · HR 1865 · HD 36673 · HIP 25985
8,079 K
temperature
2.58
apparent magnitude
37,428× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,219 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
37,428×
the Sun's light output
-6.58
absolute magnitude
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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.