 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 thought to have one or two stellar companions, but both are line-of-sight coincidences.It displays a far-infrared excess at a wavelength of 70μm, suggesting it is being orbited by a cold debris disk.In Chinese, (), meaning "Thunderbolt", refers to an asterism consisting of refers to an asterism consisting of ι Piscium, β Piscium, γ Piscium, θ Piscium, and ω Piscium.