Star profile
66 Draco
What is 66 Draco
66 Draconis is an orange K3III giant 172 light-years away, with a radius close to nine times the Sun's and a surface at 4,470 K. It radiates twenty-eight times more energy than our star, in an advanced stage where its core hydrogen has run out. It dwells in the long body of Draco, the constellation that coils around the north celestial pole and never sets below the horizon at mid-northern latitudes.
Where it is and when to see it
66 Draco lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 Draco
- Constellation
- Draco
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.40
- Distance
- 171.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 301.387° · Dec 61.995°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98962 · HD 191277
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Other stars in Draco
Draco has 122 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EltaninGamma Draco2.24
- AthebyneEta Draco2.73
- RastabanBeta Draco2.79
- HIP 910135.38
- HIP 932995.39
- 51 Draco5.40
- Tianyi5.43
- Psi 2 Draco5.43