K-type star · orange

69 Vir

69 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 280 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,523 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 280 years ago.

280 lybrightness mag 4.76K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HR 5068 · HD 116976 · HIP 65639 · Gliese Gl 511.2

4,523 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
80.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
280 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
80.17×
the Sun's light output
0.09
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.