Bonner Durchmusterung +47°2491

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 159062, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +47°2491, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 85653, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 46762
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h30m16.444s, +47°24'8.19" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 72.9 light-years (22.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.3007%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -6.38, -48.9, 53.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 17.2, 58.8, 39.4
Proper motion: 0.194 arcsec/yr (66.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.56
Visual luminosity: 0.52 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.72 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.