K-type star · orange
96 Vir
96 Vir is an orange in the constellation Virgo 415 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,736 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 415 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5298 · HD 123630 · HIP 69127
4,736 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
37.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
415 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
37.09×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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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.