B-type star · blue-white star
Theta² Mic
Theta² Mic is a blue-white star in the constellation Microscopium 391 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,598 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 391 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8180 · HD 203585 · HIP 105696
10,598 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
62.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
391 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
62.06×
the Sun's light output
0.37
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.