Iota1 Scorpii, Latinized from ι1 Scorpii, is a star in the southern constellation of Scorpius. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.03,[2] this star can be seen with the naked eye. It is sometimes called by the proper name Apollyon.[10]Parallax measurements place it at a distance of roughly 1,930 light-years (590 parsecs) from Earth, with a 9% margin of error.[1] At the estimated distance, the apparent magnitude is diminished by 0.66magnitudes due to intervening gas and dust between Earth and the star.[5]
Iota1 Scorpii has a 10th magnitude companion at an angular separation of 37.5 arcseconds, which, at the distance of this star, gives it a projected separation of 20,000 astronomical units (AU). As the relative separation of the two stars along the line of sight to the Earth is not known, however, this distance represents only a minimum value for their separation.[14]
^ abcdJohnson, H. L.; et al. (1966), "UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars", Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 4 (99): 99, Bibcode:1966CoLPL...4...99J
^ abHouk, Nancy (1978), "Michigan catalogue of two-dimensional spectral types for the HD stars", Ann Arbor: Dept. Of Astronomy, 2, Ann Arbor: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Bibcode:1978mcts.book.....H
^ abNeuhäuser, R.; Torres, G.; Mugrauer, M.; Neuhäuser, D. L.; Chapman, J.; Luge, D.; Cosci, M. (2022), "Colour evolution of Betelgeuse and Antares over two millennia, derived from historical records, as a new constraint on mass and age", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516 (1): 693, arXiv:2207.04702, Bibcode:2022MNRAS.516..693N, doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1969