A-type star · white star
34 Vir
34 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,820 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 272 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4855 · HD 111164 · HIP 62394
8,820 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
21.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
21.72×
the Sun's light output
1.51
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.