Star profile

27 Cancri

Variable star

3D likeness based on its real data · class M · ~3,200 K

What is 27 Cancri

27 Cancri is an M-type red giant whose brightness does not hold steady: it oscillates slowly, a pulsation characteristic of aged stars that have already left the main sequence. Its light crossed some nine hundred light-years to reach us, departing in the early medieval era. It dwells in Cancer, a modest but historic zodiacal constellation that the Sun crosses each northern summer and which held the solstice in antiquity.

Where it is and when to see it

27 Cancri lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.

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Astronomical data for 27 Cancri

Constellation: Cancer
Apparent magnitude: 5.56
Distance: 901.1 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 126.683° · Dec 12.655°
Catalogue: HIP 41400 · HD 71250

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Other stars in Cancer

Cancer has 49 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

See all 49 stars in Cancer