Star profile
10 Leporis
What is 10 Leporis
10 Leporis is a white A-type star around 272 light-years away, in the Hare forever fleeing Orion across the southern reaches of winter. Its white hue marks a surface hotter than the Sun's, young by stellar standards, with the bright luminous signature characteristic of A-type stars. The light we see tonight broke free as the Treaty of Utrecht was being signed and Europe was redrawing its maps.
Where it is and when to see it
10 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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 10 Leporis
- Constellation
- Lepus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 271.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 82.782° · Dec -20.864°
- Catalogue
- HIP 25853 · HD 36473
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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 246795.48
- HIP 275175.49
- HIP 291505.49
- HIP 292055.56
- HIP 241695.60