K-type star · orange dwarf

Iot Cru

120 lybrightness mag 4.69K1III

Also catalogued as HR 4842 · HD 110829 · HIP 62268

4,628 K

temperature

4.69

apparent magnitude

15.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

120 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

15.70×

the Sun's light output

1.86

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Iot CruK-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

Tupã →9.1 ly apart
HR 5000 →13 ly apart
HR 5113 →13 ly apart
HR 5048 →15 ly apart
HR 4980 →19 ly apart
Uklun →20 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.