B-type star · blue-white star

Iota² Nor

Iota² Nor is a blue-white star in the constellation Norma 280 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,435 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 280 years ago.

280 lybrightness mag 5.57B9V

Also catalogued as HR 5994 · HD 144480 · HIP 79153

10,435 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
37.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
280 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
37.95×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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Iota² NorB-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
StarEta Ara33 ly
StarHD 14448140 ly
StarHR 586940 ly
StarGamma² Norstar
StarEpsilon Norstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Norma
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Norma

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.