K-type star · orange

Iota Cnc

Iota Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,726 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 219× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 331 years ago.

331 lybrightness mag 4.03G8Iab:

Also catalogued as HR 3475 · HD 74739 · HIP 43103

4,726 K
temperature
4.03
apparent magnitude
219× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Iab:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
331 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
219×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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Iota CncK-type
Sky regionCancerthis direction
StarHR 362039 ly
StarSigma³ Cnc43 ly
StarPhi¹ Cnc50 ly
StarTarfstar
StarAsellus Australisstar
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Bright stars in Cancer
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cancer

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.