Star profile
13 Virginis
What is 13 Virginis
13 Virginis is an A-type white star 374 light-years away, suspended on the skirt of the celestial Virgin. Its light, hotter and bluer than the Sun's, set out when Galileo was still defending the Copernican system and Kepler was writing his laws of motion. Four centuries later, that photon settles onto our instruments as a punctual messenger from that seventeenth century.
Where it is and when to see it
13 Virginis lies in the southern 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 13 Virginis
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.90
- Distance
- 373.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 184.668° · Dec -0.787°
- Catalogue
- HIP 60030 · HD 107070
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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
- 65 Virginis5.88
- 64 Virginis5.89
- HIP 694935.89
- 92 Virginis5.90
- HIP 621035.91