K-type star · orange

66 Aur

1,208 lybrightness mag 5.23K0III

Also catalogued as HR 2805 · HD 57669 · HIP 35907

4,215 K

temperature

5.23

apparent magnitude

966× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,208 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

966×

the Sun's light output

-2.61

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

66 AurK-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2935 →88 ly apart
Psi9Aur →170 ly apart
HR 2645 →220 ly apart
HR 2557 →230 ly apart
52Psi3Aur →250 ly apart
HD 59721 →250 ly apart

Bright stars in Auriga

Menkalinan →mag 1.9
Mahasim →mag 2.6
Hassaleh →mag 2.7
Almaaz →mag 3.0
Haedus →mag 3.2
Saclateni →mag 3.7
33Del Aur →mag 3.7
32Nu Aur →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Auriga

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.