A-type star · white star
Theta Ind
Theta Ind is a white star in the constellation Indus 98.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,233 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 99 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8140 · HD 202730 · HIP 105319 · Gliese GJ 9733A
8,233 K
temperature
4.39
apparent magnitude
14.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
99 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
14.01×
the Sun's light output
1.98
absolute magnitude
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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.