K-type star · orange

66 Peg

66 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,095 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 114× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 5.09K3III

Also catalogued as HR 8893 · HD 220363 · HIP 115444

4,095 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
114× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
114×
the Sun's light output
-0.29
absolute magnitude
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66 PegK-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
Star74 Peg43 ly
StarHD 22268346 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.