B-type star · blue-white star
66 Psc
66 Psc is a blue-white star in the constellation Pisces 353 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,329 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 353 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 254 · HD 5267 · HIP 4267
10,329 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
48.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
353 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
48.71×
the Sun's light output
0.63
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.