K-type star · orange

66 Aql

66 Aql is an orange in the constellation Aquila 707 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,902 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 273× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 707 years ago.

707 lybrightness mag 5.44K5III

Also catalogued as HR 7720 · HD 192107 · HIP 99631

3,902 K

temperature

5.44

apparent magnitude

273× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

707 years

at light speed from Earth

0.68×

as hot as the Sun

273×

the Sun's light output

-1.24

absolute magnitude

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66 AqlK-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquila

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.