F-type star · yellow-white star
95 Vir
95 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 189 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,176 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 189 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5290 · HD 123255 · HIP 68940
7,176 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
19.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
189 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
19.21×
the Sun's light output
1.64
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.