B-type star · blue-white star
Theta Vir
Theta Vir is a blue-white star in the constellation Virgo 316 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,226 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 144× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 316 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4963 · HD 114330 · HIP 64238
10,226 K
temperature
4.38
apparent magnitude
144× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
316 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
144×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.