G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

31 Com

31 Com is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Coma Berenices 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,667 K, and it shines at 73.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 4.93G0III

Also catalogued as HR 4883 · HD 111812 · HIP 62763

5,667 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
73.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
73.79×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.