K-type star · orange

38 Com

38 Com is an orange in the constellation Coma Berenices 407 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,813 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 407 years ago.

407 lybrightness mag 5.97K0III

Also catalogued as HR 4929 · HD 113095 · HIP 63533

4,813 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
55.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
407 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
55.41×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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38 ComK-type
Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Coma Berenices
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.