A-type star · white star

Zaniah

Zaniah is a white star in the constellation Virgo 265 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,812 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 160× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 265 years ago.

265 lybrightness mag 3.89A2IV

Also catalogued as Eta Vir · HR 4689 · HD 107259 · HIP 60129

9,812 K
temperature
3.89
apparent magnitude
160× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
265 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
160×
the Sun's light output
-0.66
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To 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.