HD 27274, also known as Gliese 167, is a solitary, orange hued star located in the southern constellation Dorado. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.63, making it readily visible in binoculars, but not to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements from the Gaia spacecraft, the star is known to be located 42.5 light-years (13.02 parsecs) away from the Solar System However, it is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s. At its current distance, HD 27274 is dimmed down by 0.05 magnitudes due to interstellar dust.
HD 27274 has a stellar classification of K4.5 Vk:, indicating that it is a K-type main-sequence star with interstellar absorption features. However, there is uncertainty behind the classification. At present it has 73% the mass of the Sun and 70% of its radius. It has an effective temperature of 4,602 K, but its small size yields a luminosity only 19.6% that of the Sun. HD 27274 is metal enriched, having an iron abundance 44.6% above solar levels. The star spins with a projected rotational velocity of 1 km/s, and is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. This is similar to the Sun's current age (4.6 Gyr).
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