M-type star · red

27 Sco

27 Sco is a red in the constellation Scorpius 948 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,641 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 473× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 948 years ago.

948 lybrightness mag 5.48K5III

Also catalogued as HR 6288 · HD 152820 · HIP 82960

3,641 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
473× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
948 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
473×
the Sun's light output
-1.84
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
27 ScoM-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 6422120 ly
StarHR 6282140 ly
Star43 Oph170 ly
StarShaulastar
StarSargasstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scorpius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.