A-type star · white star

54 Vir

54 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 633 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,145 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 103× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 633 years ago.

633 lybrightness mag 6.26A0V

Also catalogued as HR 4990 · HD 114846 · HIP 64520

9,145 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
103× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
633 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
103×
the Sun's light output
-0.18
absolute magnitude
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54 VirA-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.