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.
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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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.