Bonner Durchmusterung +56°2966

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 892, Henry Draper (HD) 219134, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +56°2966, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 71, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 114622, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 35236, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 875, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 8832, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 14458
Heavy element abundance: 106% of Sol
Standard error in heavy element abundance: 10%
Source for heavy element abundance: Strobel [Fe/H] Determinations
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h13m16.978s, +57°10'6.25" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 21.28 light-years (6.526 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.4224%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 11.30, -2.336, 17.88
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -7.368, 19.94, -1.134
Proper motion: 2.094 arcsec/yr (81.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: -18.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -52.65, -39.66, -13.52

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.57
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.49
Visual luminosity: 0.220 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.01, U-B= +0.89, R-I= +0.35
Diameter: 0.912 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.469 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.035816 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.