Bonner Durchmusterung +3°2938

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 130307, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +3°2938, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 72312, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 120663, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 14377
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h47m16.157s, +2°42'12.31" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 64.2 light-years (19.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.0046%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -47.8, -42.7, 3.03
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 39.0, -2.03, 50.9
Proper motion: 0.281 arcsec/yr (256.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.78
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.31
Visual luminosity: 0.26 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.90, U-B= +0.57
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.51 A.U.s

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