A-type star · white star
64 Vir
64 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,942 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5040 · HD 116235 · HIP 65241
8,942 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
16.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
16.67×
the Sun's light output
1.79
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.