A-type star · white star
Iota Ser
Iota Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 190 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 190 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5842 · HD 140159 · HIP 76852
9,412 K
temperature
4.51
apparent magnitude
46.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
190 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
46.43×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.