A-type star · white star
27 LMi
27 LMi is a white star in the constellation Leo Minor 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 242 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4075 · HD 89904 · HIP 50860
8,597 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
21.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
21.18×
the Sun's light output
1.53
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.