M-type star · red
27 Cnc
27 Cnc is a red in the constellation Cancer 901 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,638 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 397× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 901 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3319 · HD 71250 · HIP 41400
3,638 K
temperature
5.56
apparent magnitude
397× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
901 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
397×
the Sun's light output
-1.65
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.