K-type star · orange

Omega Vir

Omega Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 497 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,795 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 162× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 497 years ago.

497 lybrightness mag 5.24M4III

Also catalogued as HR 4483 · HD 101153 · HIP 56779

3,795 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
162× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
497 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
162×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.