M-type star · red

87 Vir

87 Vir is a red in the constellation Virgo 677 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,617 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 257× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 677 years ago.

677 lybrightness mag 5.41M2III

Also catalogued as HR 5181 · HD 120052 · HIP 67288

3,617 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
257× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
677 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
257×
the Sun's light output
-1.18
absolute magnitude
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87 VirM-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
Star54 Vir100 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.