Star profile
66 Piscium
What is 66 Piscium
66 Piscium is a white visual double in the Fishes, splittable only with large-aperture instruments. What looks like a single point is in fact two stellar embers orbiting one another at a separation that keeps them optically inseparable without help. Its light crosses some three hundred and fifty years to reach us: it set out when Galileo was still pointing his freshly polished telescope at Jupiter's moons.
Where it is and when to see it
66 Piscium lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is October: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 66 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.80
- Distance
- 352.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.647° · Dec 19.188°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4267 · HD 5267
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- 21 Piscium5.77
- 44 Piscium5.77
- HIP 1178875.78
- HIP 54945.81
- HIP 8405.84