K-type star · orange

HD 96660

564 lybrightness mag 6.44K3III

Also catalogued as HIP 54380

3,815 K

temperature

6.44

apparent magnitude

69.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

564 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

69.18×

the Sun's light output

0.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 96660K-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4135 →71 ly apart
HR 4417 →73 ly apart
HR 4316 →76 ly apart
HR 4354 →79 ly apart
HD 94275 →88 ly apart
HR 4221 →91 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

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.