K-type star · orange
Iota Cap
Iota Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 197 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,029 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 197 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8167 · HD 203387 · HIP 105515
5,029 K
temperature
4.28
apparent magnitude
61.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
197 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
61.49×
the Sun's light output
0.38
absolute magnitude
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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.