Iota Ceti (ι Cet, ι Ceti) is the
Bayer designation for a
star system in the equatorial
constellation of
Cetus. It has the traditional name Deneb Kaitos Shemali.[10] The name was from the
Arabic word ذنب قيطس الشمالي - dhanab qayṭas al-shamālī, meaning the northern tail of the sea monster. it is visible to the naked eye with an
apparent visual magnitude of 3.562.[2] Based upon an annual
parallax shift of 11.7
mas,[11] it lies around 280
light years from the
Sun.
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Bibcode:
1999MSS...C05....0H.
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abEggen, O. J. (July 1993), "Evolved GK stars near the sun. I - The old disk population", Astronomical Journal, 106 (1): 80–132,
Bibcode:
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abBaines, Ellyn K.; Armstrong, J. Thomas; Schmitt, Henrique R.; Zavala, R. T.; Benson, James A.; Hutter, Donald J.; Tycner, Christopher; van Belle, Gerard T. (2017), "Fundamental parameters of 87 stars from the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer", The Astronomical Journal, 155 (1): 16,
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Bibcode:
2018AJ....155...30B,
doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa9d8b,
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