A-type star · white star
Iota Phe
Iota Phe is a white star in the constellation Phoenix 249 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,246 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 249 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8949 · HD 221760 · HIP 116389
9,246 K
temperature
4.69
apparent magnitude
67.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
249 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
67.42×
the Sun's light output
0.28
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.