Star profile
83 Virginis
What is 83 Virginis
83 Virginis burns about 824 light-years away, a yellow G-type sun far more distant and far brighter than our own. It belongs to that family of stars that share the Sun's colour but outstrip it in size, heat and luminosity. The light crossing the telescope glass tonight set out around the twelfth century —deep in the medieval crusades—, travelling eight hundred years to surface among the stars of northern spring.
Where it is and when to see it
83 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 April: 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 83 Virginis
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.55
- Distance
- 823.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 206.124° · Dec -16.179°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67057 · HD 119605
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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
- 75 Virginis5.52
- HIP 696585.53
- HIP 585765.54
- 31 Virginis5.57
- HIP 641225.57