Kuiper 47

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 379, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +75°403, Giclas (G) 252-49, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 49868, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 7063, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 565, Kuiper (KUI) 47
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h10m58.821s, +75°8'29.48" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 69.3 light-years (21.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.464%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -15.8, 8.14, 67.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -38.4, 38.4, 43.0
Proper motion: 0.349 arcsec/yr (40.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -48.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 50.9, -1.25, -32.2

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined spectrum: K6e V
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +7.85
Combined visual luminosity: 0.063 x Sol
Period: 200 years
Semimajor Axis: 42.9 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.945
Periastron distance: 2.36 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 83.5 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1955
Source for orbit data: P. Baize
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -21.04
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -13.30
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -21.16
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -13.42

Data for A and B's orbit, take 2:
Period: 192 years
Semimajor Axis: 34.5 A.U.s
Source for orbit data: Heintz
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -15.22
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -15.34


Component A:
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.18
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.54
Visual luminosity: 0.033 x Sol
Diameter: 0.66 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.18 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.927745 degrees


Component B:
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.66
Visual luminosity: 0.030 x Sol
Diameter: 0.64 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.17 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.975544 degrees

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