K-type star · orange
Iota Cep
Iota Cep is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 115 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,619 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 115 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8694 · HD 216228 · HIP 112724
4,619 K
temperature
3.50
apparent magnitude
43.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
115 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
43.33×
the Sun's light output
0.76
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.