S.W. Burnham 648

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 738, Henry Draper (HD) 176051, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +32°3267, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 93017, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 67612, Aitken Double Star (ADS) 11871, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 7162, S.W. Burnham (BU) 648
Age: 3800 million years
Source for age: Don C. Barry, "Chromospheric Age Dependence of…", APJ 334
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h57m1.587s, +32°54'4.67" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.86 light-years (14.98 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.8024%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 10.10, -39.76, 26.54
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.19, 42.64, 10.94
Proper motion: 0.224 arcsec/yr (135.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -45.8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -13.31, -39.51, -24.74

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +4.35
Combined visual luminosity: 1.591 x Sol
Period: 61.203 years
Semimajor Axis: 18.57 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.249
Periastron distance: 13.95 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 23.20 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1910.67
Source for orbit data: G. von Schrutka
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -19.03
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -17.92
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -21.39
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -20.28


Component A:
NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: F9
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.34
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.46
Visual luminosity: 1.429 x Sol
Diameter: 1.06 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.195 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.472754 degrees


Component B:
Spectral class: K1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.70
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.82
Visual luminosity: 0.163 x Sol
Diameter: 0.81 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.403 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.071119 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.