K-type star · orange

Upsilon Vir

Upsilon Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,688 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 5.14G9III

Also catalogued as HR 5366 · HD 125454 · HIP 70012

4,688 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
49.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
49.25×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.