Bonner Durchmusterung +53°1719

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 556, Henry Draper (HD) 128165, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +53°1719, Giclas (G) 200-49, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 71181, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 29196, AGK3 Reference (AGK3R) 13011, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 6710
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h33m28.888s, +52°54'31.64" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 43.78 light-years (13.42 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.9177%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.70, -16.39, 34.92
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.191, 23.18, 37.12
Proper motion: 0.31 arcsec/yr (321.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -20.02, 6.301, 8.981

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.25
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.61
Visual luminosity: 0.198 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.99, U-B= +0.84
Diameter: 0.8 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.445 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.957373 degrees

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