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TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 4:56 
Transit: 12:56 
Sunset: 20:58
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μ Leporis (mu Leporis)

Below the horizon.  Rise: 9:27 | Tran: 14:00 | Set: 18:33
Alt: -25.11°   Az: 84.57°   Direction: East

μ Leporis is a variable giant star of spectral class B9 in the constellation of Lepus.

μ Leporis visual magnitude is 3.31. Because of its moderate brightness, μ 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 μ Leporis (mu Leporis) star
DSS2 image of μ Leporis. The red arrow shows the motion of μ Leporis during the next 10000 years (7.17 arcmin in Right Ascension and -4.33 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

05h 14m 04s
-16° 10’ 37”
16h 39m 16s
21h 53m 20s

J2000

05h 12m 55s
-16° 12’ 20”

Galactic Coordinates

217.25°
-28.91°

Finder Chart

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Finder chart for μ Leporis (mu Leporis).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

3.31
Giant
μ Leporis is also a HgMn chemically peculiar star.

-0.45
B9III
11744K

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

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

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

μ Leporis is distant 184.28 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 28 kilometers per second.

56.53
184.28
28 km/s
0.043 arcsec/y
-0.026"/y

Alternative Designations

μ Leporis
(mu Leporis)
SAO150237
SAO150237

Visibility from Your Location

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

Azimuth: 106.2°
Max altitude: 22.3°
Azimuth: 253.8°