K-type star · orange

27 Hya

27 Hya is an orange in the constellation Hydra 222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,962 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 222 years ago.

222 lybrightness mag 4.80F5V+...

Also catalogued as HR 3709 · HD 80586 · HIP 45811

4,962 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
48.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
222 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
48.71×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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27 HyaK-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
Star23 Hya27 ly
StarHR 377231 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.