Bonner Durchmusterung +2°3001

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 141272, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +2°3001, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 77408, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 121196, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 14685
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 15h48m9.479s, +1°34'18.82" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 69.6 light-years (21.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1925%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37.9, -58.4, 1.91
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 52.6, 9.07, 44.7
Proper motion: 0.24 arcsec/yr (227.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -28.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -20.7, -27.7, -14.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.42
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.77
Visual luminosity: 0.43 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.81, U-B= +0.44
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.65 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.