A-type star · white star
13 Vir
13 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 374 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,419 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 374 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4681 · HD 107070 · HIP 60030
8,419 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
49.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
374 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
49.89×
the Sun's light output
0.60
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.