B-type star · blue-white star
109 Vir
109 Vir is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 134 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,188 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 134 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5511 · HD 130109 · HIP 72220
10,188 K
temperature
3.73
apparent magnitude
47.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
134 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
47.69×
the Sun's light output
0.65
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.