F-type star · yellow-white star
17 Vir
17 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 97.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,100 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 98 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4708 · HD 107705 · HIP 60353
6,100 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
2.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
98 years
at light speed from Earth
1.06×
as hot as the Sun
2.03×
the Sun's light output
4.08
absolute magnitude
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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.