B-type star · blue-white star
Theta Car
Theta Car is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,087 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,361× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 456 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4199 · HD 93030 · HIP 52419
14,087 K
temperature
2.74
apparent magnitude
1,361× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0Vp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
456 years
at light speed from Earth
2.44×
as hot as the Sun
1,361×
the Sun's light output
-2.98
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.