F-type star · yellow-white star
11 Vir
11 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 144 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,147 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 144 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4629 · HD 105702 · HIP 59309
7,147 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
8.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
144 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
8.71×
the Sun's light output
2.50
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.