A-type star · white star

Rho Vir

Rho Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 118 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,266 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 118 years ago.

118 lybrightness mag 4.88A0V

Also catalogued as HR 4828 · HD 110411 · HIP 61960

9,266 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
12.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
118 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
12.80×
the Sun's light output
2.08
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.