F-type star · yellow-white star

72 Vir

174 lybrightness mag 6.10F2V

Also catalogued as HR 5088 · HD 117436 · HIP 65892

7,211 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

8.95× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

174 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

8.95×

the Sun's light output

2.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

72 VirF-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

Nearest stars

95 Vir →34 ly apart
78 Vir →34 ly apart
HR 5317 →44 ly apart
HR 5322 →45 ly apart
Khambalia →45 ly apart
HR 5307 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Virgo

Porrima →mag 2.7
Vindemiatrix →mag 2.9
Heze →mag 3.4
Minelauva →mag 3.4
29Gam Vir →mag 3.5
Zavijava →mag 3.6
109 Vir →mag 3.7
107Mu Vir →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.