M-type star · red

Sigma Vir

Sigma Vir is a red in the constellation Virgo 675 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,597 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 457× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 675 years ago.

675 lybrightness mag 4.78M2III

Also catalogued as HR 5015 · HD 115521 · HIP 64852

3,597 K
temperature
4.78
apparent magnitude
457× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
675 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
457×
the Sun's light output
-1.80
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.