B-type star · blue-white star

8 Lep

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

8 LepB-type

Sky regionLepusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1944 →180 ly apart
HR 1887 →240 ly apart
HR 1962 →250 ly apart
HR 1640 →250 ly apart
HR 1911 →260 ly apart
43The2Ori →270 ly apart

Bright stars in Lepus

Arneb →mag 2.6
Nihal →mag 2.8
2Eps Lep →mag 3.2
5Mu Lep →mag 3.3
14Zet Lep →mag 3.5
13Gam Lep →mag 3.6
16Eta Lep →mag 3.7
15Del Lep →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

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.