G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Elgafar
Elgafar is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Virgo 118 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,626 K, and it shines at 13.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 118 years ago.
Also catalogued as Phi Vir · HR 5409 · HD 126868 · HIP 70755 · Gliese Gl 550.2A
5,626 K
temperature
4.81
apparent magnitude
13.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
118 years
at light speed from Earth
0.97×
as hot as the Sun
13.64×
the Sun's light output
2.01
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.