A-type star · white star

6 Com

6 Com is a white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,349 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 199 years ago.

199 lybrightness mag 5.09A3V

Also catalogued as HR 4663 · HD 106661 · HIP 59819

9,349 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
29.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
199 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
29.73×
the Sun's light output
1.17
absolute magnitude
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Sky regionComa Berenicesthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.