F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 66
HR 66 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 158 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,956 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 158 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 1343 · HIP 1402
6,956 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
5.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
158 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
5.34×
the Sun's light output
3.03
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.