Star profile
Iota Indus
What is Iota Indus
Iota Indi is an orange giant about 467 light-years away, in the southern constellation of the Indian, invented in the sixteenth century during the great voyages of circumnavigation. Its warm, late-life light crosses a sky corner little visited by classical legends. There it stands as witness —a slow flame in a human figure far more recent than those of the zodiac.
Where it is and when to see it
Iota Indus lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Iota Indus
- Constellation
- Indus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.06
- Distance
- 466.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 312.875° · Dec -51.608°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102950 · HD 198308
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Other stars in Indus
Indus has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Indus3.11
- Beta Indus3.67
- Theta Indus4.39
- Eta Indus4.51
- Epsilon Indus4.69
- Zeta Indus4.90
- Mu Indus5.17
- Nu Indus5.28