K-type star · orange
37 Com
37 Com is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 660 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,379 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 398× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 660 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4924 · HD 112989 · HIP 63462
4,379 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
398× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
660 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
398×
the Sun's light output
-1.65
absolute magnitude
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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.