F-type star · yellow-white star
12 Com
12 Com is a yellow-white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 295 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,322 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 295 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4707 · HD 107700 · HIP 60351
6,322 K
temperature
4.78
apparent magnitude
87.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8:p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
295 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
87.02×
the Sun's light output
0.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.