F-type star · yellow-white star
53 Vir
53 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 111 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,576 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 111 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4981 · HD 114642 · HIP 64407
6,576 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
9.66× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
111 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
9.66×
the Sun's light output
2.39
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.