K-type star · orange

Iota¹ For

Iota¹ For is an orange in the constellation Fornax 582 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,702 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 140× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 582 years ago.

582 lybrightness mag 5.74G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HR 767 · HD 16307 · HIP 12122

4,702 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
140× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
582 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
140×
the Sun's light output
-0.52
absolute magnitude
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Iota¹ ForK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.