A-type star · white star

25 Vir

25 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 225 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,308 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 225 years ago.

225 lybrightness mag 5.88A3V

Also catalogued as HR 4799 · HD 109704 · HIP 61558

9,308 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
18.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
225 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
18.45×
the Sun's light output
1.69
absolute magnitude
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25 VirA-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.