K-type star · orange dwarf
66 Dra
66 Dra is an orange dwarf in the constellation Draco 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,326 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 172 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7701 · HD 191277 · HIP 98962
4,326 K
temperature
5.40
apparent magnitude
16.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
172 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
16.73×
the Sun's light output
1.79
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.