K-type star · orange

Chi Vir

Chi Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,232 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.

294 lybrightness mag 4.66K2III

Also catalogued as HR 4813 · HD 110014 · HIP 61740

4,232 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
96.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
96.47×
the Sun's light output
-0.11
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.