F-type star · yellow-white star
66 Cet
66 Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,187 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 650 · HD 13612 · HIP 10305 · Gliese Gl 87.1A
6,187 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
7.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
7.54×
the Sun's light output
2.66
absolute magnitude
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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.