F-type star · yellow-white star

Iota Hor

Iota Hor is a yellow-white star in the constellation Horologium 56.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,125 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 56 years ago.

56.0 lybrightness mag 5.40G3IV

Also catalogued as HR 810 · HD 17051 · HIP 12653 · Gliese Gl 108

6,125 K

temperature

5.40

apparent magnitude

1.78× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

56 years

at light speed from Earth

1.06×

as hot as the Sun

1.78×

the Sun's light output

4.23

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Horologium

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.