A-type star · white star

85 Vir

85 Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 346 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,585 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 346 years ago.

346 lybrightness mag 6.18A0V

Also catalogued as HR 5170 · HD 119786 · HIP 67139

9,585 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
33.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
346 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
33.02×
the Sun's light output
1.05
absolute magnitude
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85 VirA-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.