K-type star · orange
66 Ori
66 Ori is an orange in the constellation Orion. Its surface is about 4,646 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48,752,849× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.63G4III
Also catalogued as HR 2145 · HD 41380 · HIP 28814
4,646 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
48,752,849× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
48,752,849×
the Sun's light output
-14.37
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.