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public  Mortara, Italy Mortara, Italy  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/Rome
Sunrise: 5:50 
Transit: 13:30 
Sunset: 21:10
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λ Leporis (lambda Leporis)

Above the horizon.  Rise: 6:19 | Tran: 11:23 | Set: 16:27
Alt: 19.58°   Az: 225.43°   Direction: South-West

λ Leporis is a hypergiant star of spectral class B0 in the constellation of Lepus.

λ Leporis visual magnitude is 4.29. Because of its moderate brightness, λ 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 λ Leporis (lambda Leporis) star
DSS2 image of λ Leporis. The red arrow shows the motion of λ Leporis during the next 100000 years (-1.67 arcmin in Right Ascension and -5.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 20m 45s
-13° 09’ 07”
02h 54m 18s
08h 15m 03s

J2000

05h 19m 34s
-13° 10’ 36”

Galactic Coordinates

214.83°
-26.24°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for λ Leporis (lambda Leporis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.29
Hypergiant

-3.30
B0IV
15229K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

λ Leporis is distant 1,075.91 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.

330.03
1,075.91
20 km/s
-0.001 arcsec/y
-0.003"/y

Alternative Designations

λ Leporis
(lambda Leporis)
SAO150340
SAO150340

Visibility from Your Location

Today's λ Leporis (lambda Leporis) rise, transit and set times from Mortara, Italy are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/Rome):

Azimuth: 103.2°
Max altitude: 31.6°
Azimuth: 256.8°