K-type star · orange

Iota Ret

Iota Ret is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,973 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 319 years ago.

319 lybrightness mag 4.97K4III

Also catalogued as HR 1266 · HD 25728 · HIP 18772

3,973 K
temperature
4.97
apparent magnitude
85.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
319 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
85.74×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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Iota RetK-type
Sky regionReticulumthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.