K-type star · orange
20 Vir
20 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 473 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,858 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 473 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4777 · HD 109217 · HIP 61246
4,858 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
55.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
473 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
55.77×
the Sun's light output
0.48
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.