B-type star · blue-white star
Theta Cap
Theta Cap is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,252 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8075 · HD 200761 · HIP 104139
10,252 K
temperature
4.08
apparent magnitude
50.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
50.26×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.