F-type star · yellow-white star
72 Vir
72 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 174 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,211 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 174 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5088 · HD 117436 · HIP 65892
7,211 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
8.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
174 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
8.95×
the Sun's light output
2.47
absolute magnitude
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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.