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17 Leporis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 10:44 | Tran: 15:16 | Set: 19:47
Alt: -26.76°   Az: 277.07°   Direction: West

17 Leporis is a variable star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Lepus.

17 Leporis visual magnitude is 4.93. Because of its moderate brightness, 17 Leporis is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 17 Leporis star
DSS2 image of 17 Leporis. The red arrow shows the motion of 17 Leporis during the next 100000 years (-10.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -1.67 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

06h 06m 07s
-16° 29’ 16”
07h 29m 51s
13h 35m 58s

J2000

06h 04m 59s
-16° 29’ 03”

Galactic Coordinates

222.87°
-17.53°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for 17 Leporis.

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.93

-2.65
A2
7866K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 17 Leporis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 17 Leporis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

17 Leporis is distant 1,068.85 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

327.87
1,068.85
20 km/s
-0.006 arcsec/y
-0.001"/y

Alternative Designations

SAO151093
SAO151093

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 17 Leporis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 106.5°
Max altitude: 22.0°
Azimuth: 253.5°