Bonner Durchmusterung +60°1577

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +60°1577, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 73252, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 734
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h58m15.759s, +59°35'0.24" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 81.6 light-years (25.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.251%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -29.4, -29.0, 70.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -6.75, 51.0, 63.4
Proper motion: 0.09 arcsec/yr (309.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.01
Visual luminosity: 0.022 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.38, U-B= +1.27, R-I= +0.61
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.15 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.