F-type star · yellow-white star

Porrima

Porrima is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 38.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,055 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 38 years ago.

38.1 lybrightness mag 2.74F0V+...

Also catalogued as Gamma Vir · HR 4825 · HD 110379 · HIP 61941 · Gliese Gl 482A

7,055 K

temperature

2.74

apparent magnitude

9.53× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

38 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

9.53×

the Sun's light output

2.40

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionVirgothis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.7To 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.