DP Leonis is an eclipsing binary star system located about 1304 lightyears or 400 parsecs from the Sun that is part of the Leo constellation.
DP Leonis (abbreviated DP Leo) is an eclipsing binary system approximately 1304 light-years away from the Sun, probably a cataclysmic variable star of the AM Herculis-type also known as polars. The unit most commonly used in professional astronomy is the parsec (symbol: pc, about 3.26 light-years) which derives from astrometry: it is the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one second of arc. Leo 
