F-type star · yellow-white star
Iota¹ Sco
Iota¹ Sco is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scorpius 1,930 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,348 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19,427× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,930 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6615 · HD 161471 · HIP 87073
6,348 K
temperature
2.99
apparent magnitude
19,427× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,930 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
19,427×
the Sun's light output
-5.87
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.