K-type star · orange

Iota¹ Mus

Iota¹ Mus is an orange in the constellation Musca 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,493 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 5.04K0III

Also catalogued as HR 5042 · HD 116244 · HIP 65468

4,493 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
38.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
38.58×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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Iota¹ MusK-type
Sky regionMuscathis direction
StarHR 529525 ly
StarHR 438537 ly
StarHR 439738 ly
StarAlpha Musstar
StarBeta Musstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Musca
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Musca

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.