K-type star · orange

27 Cet

27 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 303 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,714 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 303 years ago.

303 lybrightness mag 6.09K0III

Also catalogued as HR 315 · HD 6482 · HIP 5121

4,714 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
27.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
303 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
27.57×
the Sun's light output
1.25
absolute magnitude
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27 CetK-type
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StarPhi⁴ Cet20 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.