A-type star · white star

Pi Vir

Pi Vir is a white star in the constellation Virgo 384 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,820 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 167× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 384 years ago.

384 lybrightness mag 4.65A5V

Also catalogued as HR 4589 · HD 104321 · HIP 58590

8,820 K
temperature
4.65
apparent magnitude
167× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
384 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
167×
the Sun's light output
-0.70
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.