Bonner Durchmusterung +83°431

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 133002, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +83°431, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 72573, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 2459, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 1644, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 5596, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 14431
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h50m20.403s, +82°30'42.97" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 50.2 light-years (15.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 8.4507%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -4.81, -4.42, 49.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -19.9, 36.6, 27.9
Proper motion: 0.284 arcsec/yr (144.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -44 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 36.4, -26.7, -18.1

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: F9
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.71
Visual luminosity: 1.14 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.68, U-B= +0.17
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.07 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.