A-type star · white star
16 Com
16 Com is a white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 278 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,145 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 278 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4738 · HD 108382 · HIP 60746
9,145 K
temperature
4.98
apparent magnitude
64.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
278 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
64.39×
the Sun's light output
0.33
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.