Iota Orionis

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Na’ir al Saif (stars.astro.illinois.edu) NA’IR AL SAIF (Iota Orionis). Dangling from Orion’s Belt is the Hunter’s mighty three- star sword, the trio increasing in brightness toward the south.

Iota Orionis (Wikipedia) Iota Orionis (ι Orionis, abbreviated ι Ori) is a multiple star system in the equatorial constellation of Orion the hunter. It is the eighth-brightest member of Orion with an apparent visual magnitude of 2.77 and also the brightest member of the asterism known as Orion’s Sword. It is a member of the NGC 1980 open cluster. From parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of roughly 1,340 light-years (412 parsecs) from the Sun.