M-type star · red

82 Vir

82 Vir is a red in the constellation Virgo 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,617 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 207× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.

510 lybrightness mag 5.03M2III

Also catalogued as HR 5150 · HD 119149 · HIP 66803

3,617 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
207× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
207×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.