F-type star · yellow-white star
27 Cap
27 Cap is a yellow-white star in the constellation Capricornus 168 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,961 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 168 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8091 · HD 201352 · HIP 104452
6,961 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
7.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
168 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
7.33×
the Sun's light output
2.69
absolute magnitude
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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.