K-type star · orange

65 Vir

65 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 1,245 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,900 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 564× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,245 years ago.

1,245 lybrightness mag 5.88K3III

Also catalogued as HR 5047 · HD 116365 · HIP 65323

3,900 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
564× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,245 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
564×
the Sun's light output
-2.03
absolute magnitude
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65 VirK-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.