F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota Hyi
Iota Hyi is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydrus 96.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,684 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 97 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1025 · HD 21024 · HIP 15201
6,684 K
temperature
5.51
apparent magnitude
4.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
97 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
4.80×
the Sun's light output
3.15
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.