A-type star · white star
Iota Del
Iota Del is a white star in the constellation Delphinus 189 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,542 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 189 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7883 · HD 196544 · HIP 101800
9,542 K
temperature
5.42
apparent magnitude
19.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
189 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
19.86×
the Sun's light output
1.60
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.