B-type star · blue-white star

Iota Aps

Iota Aps is a blue-white star in the constellation Apus 1,320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,681 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 997× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,320 years ago.

1,320 lybrightness mag 5.39B8/B9Vn...

Also catalogued as HR 6411 · HD 156190 · HIP 84979

10,681 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
997× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9Vn...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,320 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
997×
the Sun's light output
-2.65
absolute magnitude
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Iota ApsB-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHD 153389120 ly
StarKappa TrA200 ly
StarHR 6356210 ly
StarParadysstar
StarGamma Apsstar
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Bright stars in Apus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.