Star profile
109 Virginis
What is 109 Virginis
109 Virginis shines with the clean white light of an A-class star, some 134 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Its cool, hard tone betrays a surface much hotter than the Sun. The light reaching a telescope tonight left it back when the first steamships were crossing the Atlantic in the early nineteenth century.
Where it is and when to see it
109 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 April, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 40° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 51° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 54° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 88° S.
It ranks no. 8 in brightness among the 99 stars of Virgo in our catalogue. To find it, start from Spica, the brightest: it lies about 24° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 130 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 109 Virginis
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.73
- Distance
- 134.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 221.562° · Dec 1.893°
- Catalogue
- HIP 72220 · HD 130109
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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
- MinelauvaDelta Virginis3.39
- Gamma Virginis3.52
- ZavijavaBeta Virginis3.59
- Mu Virginis3.87
- ZaniahEta Virginis3.89