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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:52 
Transit: 12:57 
Sunset: 21:03
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ι Leporis (iota Leporis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 8:47 | Tran: 13:44 | Set: 18:41
Alt: 25.81°   Az: 193.23°   Direction: South-South-West

ι Leporis is a double main-sequence star of spectral class B8 in the constellation of Lepus.

ι Leporis visual magnitude is 4.45. Because of its moderate brightness, ι 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 ι Leporis (iota Leporis) star
DSS2 image of ι Leporis. The red arrow shows the motion of ι Leporis during the next 10000 years (4.50 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.50 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 13m 29s
-11° 50’ 25”
00h 48m 37s
06h 02m 06s

J2000

05h 12m 17s
-11° 52’ 09”

Galactic Coordinates

212.67°
-27.32°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for ι Leporis (iota Leporis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.45
Main-sequence

0.11
B8V
11573K

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

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

Star System Properties

ι Leporis is a visual double star which can be observed only with the help of very large telescopes. The table below shows key information about the ι Leporis double sysyem:

4.45
10.75
6.3
12.7 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

ι Leporis is distant 240.95 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 25 kilometers per second.

73.91
240.95
25 km/s
0.027 arcsec/y
-0.015"/y

Alternative Designations

ι Leporis
(iota Leporis)
SAO150223
SAO150223

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 101.8°
Max altitude: 26.7°
Azimuth: 258.2°