K-type star · orange
27 Ori
27 Ori is an orange in the constellation Orion 187 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,838 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 187 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1787 · HD 35410 · HIP 25282
4,838 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
26.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
187 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
26.72×
the Sun's light output
1.28
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.