HD 34968 is a binary star[2] system in the southern constellationLepus. The combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.69[2] is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. The distance to HD 34968 can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of 8.7 mas, yielding a range of 374 light years. It is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 31 km/s,[5] having come within 118.6 ly some 3,686,000 years ago.[4]
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