A-type star · white star

13 Com

13 Com is a white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 265 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,205 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 265 years ago.

265 lybrightness mag 5.17A3V

Also catalogued as HR 4717 · HD 107966 · HIP 60514

9,205 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
48.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
265 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
48.98×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Coma Berenices

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.