K-type star · orange

Iota Ind

Iota Ind is an orange in the constellation Indus 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,461 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 169× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.06K1II/III

Also catalogued as HR 7968 · HD 198308 · HIP 102950

4,461 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
169× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
169×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
absolute magnitude
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Iota IndK-type
Sky regionIndusthis direction
StarHR 811450 ly
StarHD 19590263 ly
StarZeta Ind68 ly
StarAlpha Indstar
StarBeta Indstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Indus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Indus

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.