B-type star · blue-white star

31 Vir

31 Vir is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 233 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,100 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 233 years ago.

233 lybrightness mag 5.57A2V

Also catalogued as HR 4829 · HD 110423 · HIP 61968

10,100 K

temperature

5.57

apparent magnitude

26.35× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

233 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

26.35×

the Sun's light output

1.30

absolute magnitude

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31 VirB-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

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Bright stars in Virgo

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.