K-type star · orange

89 Vir

89 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 244 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,605 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 244 years ago.

244 lybrightness mag 4.96K0III

Also catalogued as HR 5196 · HD 120452 · HIP 67494

4,605 K
temperature
4.96
apparent magnitude
50.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
244 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
50.72×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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89 VirK-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.