F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota Pic
Iota Pic is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pictor 126 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,467 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 126 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1564 · HD 31204 · HIP 22534
6,467 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
3.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
126 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
3.50×
the Sun's light output
3.49
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.