M-type star · red

87 Vir

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

87 VirM-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

Nearest stars

54 Vir →100 ly apart
HD 121758 →100 ly apart
HR 5178 →110 ly apart
HR 5246 →120 ly apart
50 Vir →140 ly apart
83 Vir →150 ly apart

Bright stars in Virgo

Porrima →mag 2.7
Vindemiatrix →mag 2.9
Heze →mag 3.4
Minelauva →mag 3.4
29Gam Vir →mag 3.5
Zavijava →mag 3.6
109 Vir →mag 3.7
107Mu Vir →mag 3.9

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.