K-type star · orange

71 Vir

71 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,621 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 320 years ago.

320 lybrightness mag 5.65K0III

Also catalogued as HR 5081 · HD 117304 · HIP 65790

4,621 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
46.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
46.17×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.