K-type star · orange
75 Vir
75 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 514 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,255 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 134× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 514 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5099 · HD 117789 · HIP 66091
4,255 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
134× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
514 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
134×
the Sun's light output
-0.47
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.