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Star · K0

HIP 27319

HIP 27319 is a supergiant star of spectral type K0 in the constellation Auriga, 523.0 light-years from the Sun.

ConstellationAuriga
Distance523.0 light-years (160.3 pc)
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 6.30
Absolute magnitudemagnitude 0.27
Spectral typeK0
Surface temperature4,030 K
Luminosity185 L☉
Radius27.9 R☉
Mass4.03 M☉ (estimated)
Right ascension (J2000)5h 47m 14.7s
Declination (J2000)+42° 31′ 36″
Space velocity (relative to the Sun)70.3 km/s

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 6.30). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 47° S. North of latitude 47° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in December, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1503. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 9.3 million years.

The Sun seen from there

From a planet around HIP 27319, the Sun would look like a star of magnitude 10.86, in the direction where our sky has the constellation Scorpius. It would be invisible to the naked eye.

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Position, brightness and colour from the HYG / AT-HYG catalogue; temperature, luminosity, radius and mass are approximate values computed from these observations.