A-type star · white star
66 Cnc
66 Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,145 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3587 · HD 77104 · HIP 44307
9,145 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
78.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
78.56×
the Sun's light output
0.11
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.