A-type star · white star

Theta¹ Mic

Theta¹ Mic is a white star in the constellation Microscopium 197 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,777 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 197 years ago.

197 lybrightness mag 4.80A2p

Also catalogued as HR 8151 · HD 203006 · HIP 105382

9,777 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
38.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
197 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
38.26×
the Sun's light output
0.89
absolute magnitude
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Theta¹ MicA-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
StarHR 820215 ly
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StarGamma Micstar
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Microscopium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.