Bonner Durchmusterung +79°590

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +79°590, Giclas (G) 259-29, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 90376, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 9140, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 183, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 15472
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h26m28.814s, +79°25'23.58" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 79.6 light-years (24.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1256%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.68, -14.5, 78.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -25.3, 65.6, 37.3
Proper motion: 0.355 arcsec/yr (3.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: -27 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -30.1, -35.7, -15.2

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.70
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.76
Visual luminosity: 0.068 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.18, R-I= +0.47
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.26 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.