K-type star · orange
Iota Oct
Iota Oct is an orange in the constellation Octans 352 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 352 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4870 · HD 111482 · HIP 63031
4,764 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
66.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
352 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
66.99×
the Sun's light output
0.28
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.