Bonner Durchmusterung +19°2881

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 567, Henry Draper (HD) 131511, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +19°2881, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 5279, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 72848, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 101276, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 5553, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 6847
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h53m23.754s, +19°9'10.18" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 37.62 light-years (11.54 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.9257%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -25.85, -24.40, 12.34
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 17.06, 7.445, 32.70
Proper motion: 0.497 arcsec/yr (295.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: -31 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -36.39, -13.87, -13.53

What do all these fields mean?


NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: K2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.02
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.71
Visual luminosity: 0.453 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.84, U-B= +0.49, R-I= +0.30
Diameter: 1.004 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.673 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.795090 degrees

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