No star has been selected yet.
You haven't picked a star yet
Back to the selector
Your star
hip-34981
Variable starIts story
27 Canis Majoris, also catalogued as EW Canis Majoris, is a blue Be-type star spinning at nearly 290 km/s at its equator —close to the critical velocity at which its outer matter would tear loose into space—. It lies about 1,700 light-years away, deep within the Greater Dog and not far from Sirius. In 1953, W. S. Finsen first resolved it as a double; the two components have been visibly drifting apart through telescopes ever since.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.42
- Distance
- 1735.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 108.563° · Dec -26.353°
- Catalogue
- HIP 34981 · HD 56014
Take your star to the gift that suits you best.
Choose a tierSymbolic commemorative gift — no ownership, no IAU recognition.