A-type star · white star
41 Vir
41 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,578 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 199 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4900 · HD 112097 · HIP 62933
7,578 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
10.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
199 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
10.21×
the Sun's light output
2.33
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.