Struve 1785

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 528, Henry Draper (HD) 120476, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +27°2296, Giclas (G) 150-41, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 6, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 67422, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 83011, Aitken Double Star (ADS) 9031, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 700, Struve (STF) 1785
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h49m3.953s, +26°58'46.21" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 44.5 light-years (13.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7833%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -35.3, -18.2, 20.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 8.47, 5.85, 43.3
Proper motion: 0.461 arcsec/yr (258.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -20.7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -21.9, -25.6, -13.5

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +6.37
Combined visual luminosity: 0.25 x Sol
Period: 155 years
Semimajor Axis: 33.1 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.443
Periastron distance: 18.4 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 47.7 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1916.9
Source for orbit data: K.A. Strand
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -17.89
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -15.82
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -18.31
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -16.24

Data for A and B's orbit, take 2:
Period: 155.75 years
Semimajor Axis: 33.2 A.U.s
Source for orbit data: Heintz AJ 94, 1077 (1987)
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -16.61
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -17.03


Component A:
Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.61
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.93
Visual luminosity: 0.15 x Sol
Diameter: 0.75 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.38 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.044016 degrees


Component B:
Proper motion: 0.461 arcsec/yr (258.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -20.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -22.0, -25.6, -13.7
Spectral class: K6
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.03
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.35
Visual luminosity: 0.100 x Sol
Diameter: 1.14 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.32 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.933046 degrees

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