Star profile
Iota Piscis Austrini
Hot blue starWhat is Iota Piscis Austrini
Iota Piscis Austrini is a blue main-sequence star with a surface above 10,000 K, distinctly hotter than the Sun. At 204 light-years inside the Southern Fish —the same constellation that holds Fomalhaut—, it is accompanied by a faint magnitude-11.4 companion roughly twenty arcseconds away, first logged by German astronomer Engelmann in the late 19th century and barely shifted in the long century since.
Where it is and when to see it
Iota Piscis Austrini lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: 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 Piscis Austrini
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.35
- Distance
- 204.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 326.237° · Dec -33.026°
- Catalogue
- HIP 107380 · HD 206742
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Other stars in Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- FomalhautAlpha Piscis Austrini1.17
- Epsilon Piscis Austrini4.18
- Delta Piscis Austrini4.20
- Beta Piscis Austrini4.29
- Gamma Piscis Austrini4.46
- Mu Piscis Austrini4.50
- Tau Piscis Austrini4.94
- Upsilon Piscis Austrini4.99