B-type star · blue-white star
Theta Ret
Theta Ret is a blue-white star in the constellation Reticulum 461 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,956 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 461 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1372 · HD 27657 · HIP 20020
10,956 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
77.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
461 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
77.27×
the Sun's light output
0.13
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.