Star profile
8 Leporis
Hot blue starWhat is 8 Leporis
8 Leporis glows inside Lepus, the Hare crouched beneath Orion's feet. It is a blue B-type star more than 1,600 light-years away, a span so vast that its light slipped into the night during the 4th century —the twilight of the Roman Empire. Its surface burns near 20,000 degrees, hot enough to lend the most demanding spectra their ionised blue tinge.
Where it is and when to see it
8 Leporis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 25° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 35° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 70° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 76° N.
It ranks no. 20 in brightness among the 45 stars of Lepus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Arneb, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,600 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 8 Leporis
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.25
- Distance
- 1647.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 80.876° · Dec -13.927°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25202 · HD 35337
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Other stars in Lepus
Lepus has 45 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArnebAlpha Leporis2.58
- NihalBeta Leporis2.81
- Epsilon Leporis3.19
- HIP 286755.03
- HIP 245055.06
- HIP 250455.06
- 19 Leporis5.28
- Nu Leporis5.29