F-type star · yellow-white star
66 Vir
66 Vir is a yellow-white star in the constellation Virgo 97.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 98 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5050 · HD 116568 · HIP 65420
6,801 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
3.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
98 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
3.88×
the Sun's light output
3.38
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.