Star profile
10 Virginis
What is 10 Virginis
10 Virginis is an orange K-type star in Virgo, 238 light-years away. Its surface burns cooler than the Sun's and so it gives off that warm, coppery light the eye recognises at once with a little training. It shares the sky with Spica and with the immense Virgo cluster of galaxies, though that one hides far further away. The light crossing the atmosphere tonight left its envelope during the eighteenth century, in the heart of the European Enlightenment.
Where it is and when to see it
10 Virginis lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is March: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 10 Virginis
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 238.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 182.422° · Dec 1.898°
- Catalogue
- HIP 59285 · HD 105639
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Other stars in Virgo
Virgo has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SpicaAlpha Virginis0.98
- PorrimaGamma Virginis2.74
- VindemiatrixEpsilon Virginis2.85
- HIP 621035.91
- HIP 733505.91
- HIP 662475.92
- HIP 605955.95
- 50 Virginis5.95