G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
83 Vir
83 Vir is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Virgo 824 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,266 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 335× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 824 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5165 · HD 119605 · HIP 67057
5,266 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
335× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G1IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
824 years
at light speed from Earth
0.91×
as hot as the Sun
335×
the Sun's light output
-1.46
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.