F-type star · yellow-white star
48 Vir
48 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 506 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,487 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.6 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 506 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4937 · HD 113459 · HIP 63750
7,487 K
temperature
6.62
apparent magnitude
47.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
506 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
47.08×
the Sun's light output
0.67
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.