Star profile
Theta Lyrae
Highly luminous starWhat is Theta Lyrae
θ Lyrae is an orange giant at 832 light-years, well removed from the small Lyre that Vega anchors. Its apparent brightness seems modest, but the modesty is deceptive: to be visible from such depth, it must outshine the Sun by hundreds of times. It is one of those stars that look small in a catalogue yet prove colossal once the gulf separating them from us is measured.
Where it is and when to see it
Theta Lyrae lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Theta Lyrae
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.35
- Distance
- 832.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 289.092° · Dec 38.134°
- Catalogue
- HIP 94713 · HD 180809
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Other stars in Lyra
Lyra has 37 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- VegaAlpha Lyrae0.03
- SulafatGamma Lyrae3.25
- SheliakBeta Lyrae3.52
- Delta 2 Lyrae4.22
- Kappa Lyrae4.33
- Zeta 1 Lyrae4.34
- AladfarEta Lyrae4.43
- Epsilon 2 Lyrae4.59