F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota Mic
Iota Mic is a yellow-white star in the constellation Microscopium 116 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,095 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 116 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7943 · HD 197937 · HIP 102693 · Gliese Gl 808.1
7,095 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
9.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
116 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
9.87×
the Sun's light output
2.36
absolute magnitude
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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.