B-type star · blue-white star

108 Vir

108 Vir is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,395 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 5.68B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 5501 · HD 129956 · HIP 72154

10,395 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.22
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.