K-type star · orange

27 Mon

27 Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 275 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,299 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 275 years ago.

275 lybrightness mag 4.93K2III

Also catalogued as HR 3122 · HD 65695 · HIP 39079

4,299 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
65.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
275 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
65.95×
the Sun's light output
0.30
absolute magnitude
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27 MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
StarHR 301423 ly
StarHR 321230 ly
Star14 CMi43 ly
StarBeta Monstar
StarAlpha Monstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Monoceros

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.