K-type star · orange

Iota Tel

Iota Tel is an orange in the constellation Telescopium 371 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,523 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 371 years ago.

371 lybrightness mag 4.88G9III

Also catalogued as HR 7424 · HD 184127 · HIP 96341

4,523 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
371 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
absolute magnitude
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Iota TelK-type
Sky regionTelescopiumthis direction
StarHR 746120 ly
StarHR 741632 ly
StarHR 741134 ly
StarAlpha Telstar
StarZeta Telstar
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Bright stars in Telescopium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Telescopium

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.