Star profile
Iota Reticulum
What is Iota Reticulum
Iota Reticuli is a solitary orange K4 III giant 319 light-years away, its envelope swollen to twenty-four solar radii. Its path through space tells a story: 883,000 years ago it came as close as 212 light-years to the Solar System, and is now receding at 61 km/s. An old traveller that was once nearer to us and is taking its slow leave through the small southern Reticle.
Where it is and when to see it
Iota Reticulum lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: 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 Reticulum
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.97
- Distance
- 319.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 60.325° · Dec -61.079°
- Catalogue
- HIP 18772 · HD 25728
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Other stars in Reticulum
Reticulum has 16 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Reticulum3.33
- Beta Reticulum3.84
- Epsilon Reticulum4.44
- Gamma Reticulum4.48
- Delta Reticulum4.56
- Kappa Reticulum4.71
- Zeta 2 Reticulum5.24
- Eta Reticulum5.24