Mu Cassiopeiae

light-years
Proper names: Mu Cassiopeiae, 30 Cassiopeiae
Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 53, Henry Draper (HD) 6582, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +54°223, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 8, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 5336, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 22024, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 1030, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 321, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 405, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 10400
Age: 7900 million years
Source for age: Don C. Barry, "Chromospheric Age Dependence of…", APJ 334
Heavy element abundance: 22% of Sol
Standard error in heavy element abundance: 12%
Source for heavy element abundance: Strobel [Fe/H] Determinations
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h8m16.378s, +54°55'13.41" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 24.63 light-years (7.553 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.4511%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 13.53, 4.155, 20.16
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -14.28, 19.81, -3.248
Proper motion: 3.77 arcsec/yr (114.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: -98.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -42.13, -157.9, -33.68

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +5.77
Combined visual luminosity: 0.427 x Sol
Period: 21.43 years
Semimajor Axis: 1.405 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.61
Periastron distance: 0.548 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 2.262 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1954.34
Source for orbit data: S.L. Lippincott
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -21.27
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -18.19
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -27.10
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -24.02


Component A:
NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: G5p
Luminosity Class: VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.17
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.78
Visual luminosity: 0.425 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.69, U-B= +0.09, R-I= +0.28
Mass: 0.75 x Sol
Diameter: 0.739 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.652 A.U.s
Orbital period in CZ: 221.929 days
Tidal index in CZ: 2.70864
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.604190 degrees


Component B:
Proper motion: 3.77 arcsec/yr (114.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -105.4, -70.19, -48.06
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.61
Visual luminosity: 0.00198 x Sol
Mass: 0.2 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0445 A.U.s
Orbital period in CZ: 7.65851 days
Tidal index in CZ: 2274.53

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