F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota Cha
Iota Cha is a yellow-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 190 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,605 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 190 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3795 · HD 82554 · HIP 46107
6,605 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
21.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3/F5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
190 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
21.52×
the Sun's light output
1.52
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.