Star profile
66 Virginis
What is 66 Virginis
66 Virginis is a yellow-white F-type star just 98 light-years away, one of the closest in its set within Virgo. Hotter and brighter than the Sun yet still well within the solar neighbourhood, almost any observer under dark, moonless skies can pick it out unaided. The light arriving tonight left the star around the same years when Wegener was first outlining the theory of continental drift.
Where it is and when to see it
66 Virginis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April: 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 Virginis
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.76
- Distance
- 97.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 201.138° · Dec -5.164°
- Catalogue
- HIP 65420 · HD 116568
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Other stars in Virgo
Virgo has 99 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- SpicaAlpha Virginis0.98
- PorrimaGamma Virginis2.74
- VindemiatrixEpsilon Virginis2.85
- HIP 735365.71
- 11 Virginis5.72
- HIP 644455.76
- 44 Virginis5.79
- HIP 641795.79