B-type star · blue-white star

Iota Ara

Iota Ara is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 935 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,523 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 589× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 935 years ago.

935 lybrightness mag 5.21B2IIIne

Also catalogued as HR 6451 · HD 157042 · HIP 85079

11,523 K

temperature

5.21

apparent magnitude

589× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IIIne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

935 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

589×

the Sun's light output

-2.08

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.