K-type star · orange
84 Vir
84 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 238 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,534 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 238 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5159 · HD 119425 · HIP 66936
4,534 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
33.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
238 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
33.73×
the Sun's light output
1.03
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.