Iota Piscium [SEP] constellation
Iota Piscium
Iota Piscium (Iota Psc, ι Piscium, ι Psc) is single, F-type main-sequence star located 45 light years from Earth, in the constellation Pisces. Its spectral type is F7V, which means that it is somewhat larger and brighter than the Sun, but still within the range considered to have the potential for Earth-like planets. It has a surface temperature of about 6,000 to 7,500 K. Iota Piscium is a suspected to be a variable star, and was once
"Thunderbolt", refers to an asterism consisting of Beta Piscium and Gamma, Theta, Iota and Omega Piscium. Consequently, the Chinese name for Beta Piscium itself is (, ).
Properties.
Beta Piscium is a Be star, a special class of B-type stars with emission lines in their spectra. With a spectral type of B6Ve its mass is estimated to be about , and its radius is about . It is suspected to be a variable star. Beta Piscium is radiating 524 times the Sun's