K-type star · orange

27 Ari

27 Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 289 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,975 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 289 years ago.

289 lybrightness mag 6.21G5III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 731 · HD 15596 · HIP 11698

4,975 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
22.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
289 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
22.39×
the Sun's light output
1.48
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aries

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.