F-type star · yellow-white star
38 Vir
38 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 107 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,421 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 107 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4891 · HD 111998 · HIP 62875 · Gliese GJ 9421
6,421 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
3.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
107 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
3.36×
the Sun's light output
3.54
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.