K-type star · orange dwarf

Iota Cru

Iota Cru is an orange dwarf in the constellation Crux 120 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,628 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 120 years ago.

120 lybrightness mag 4.69K1III

Also catalogued as HR 4842 · HD 110829 · HIP 62268

4,628 K
temperature
4.69
apparent magnitude
15.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
120 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
15.70×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
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Iota CruK-type
Sky regionCruxthis direction
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Bright stars in Crux
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.