K-type star · orange
Nu Vir
Nu Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,792 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 171× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4517 · HD 102212 · HIP 57380
3,792 K
temperature
4.04
apparent magnitude
171× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
171×
the Sun's light output
-0.73
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.