F-type star · yellow-white star
39 Com
39 Com is a yellow-white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,918 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4946 · HD 113848 · HIP 63948
6,918 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
8.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
8.56×
the Sun's light output
2.52
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.