A-type star · white star

8 Com

8 Com is a white star in the constellation Coma Berenices 279 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,345 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 279 years ago.

279 lybrightness mag 6.26A8m

Also catalogued as HR 4685 · HD 107168 · HIP 60087

8,345 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
20.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
279 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
20.04×
the Sun's light output
1.59
absolute magnitude
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8 ComA-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.