Bonner Durchmusterung +59°1783

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Woolley (Wo) 9582, Henry Draper (HD) 154712, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +59°1783, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 83451, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 30220, Aitken Double Star (ADS) 10329
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h3m18.52s, +59°35'7.4" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 82.1 light-years (25.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.8033%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -10.2, -40.3, 70.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.62, 65.9, 49.0
Proper motion: 0.446 arcsec/yr (303.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: -73.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -37.0, -81.7, -11.4

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +6.44
Combined visual luminosity: 0.23 x Sol
Observed Separation: 428 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -10.11
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -11.76


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 226-43, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 15047
Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.66
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.66
Visual luminosity: 0.19 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.04, U-B= +0.94, R-I= +0.38
Diameter: 0.79 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.43 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.968194 degrees


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 226-44, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 15048
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h2m38s, +59°39'12" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -10.3, -40.2, 70.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.51, 65.8, 49.1
Proper motion: 0.458 arcsec/yr (304.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: -72.7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -38.9, -81.5, -11.2
Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.31
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.30
Visual luminosity: 0.042 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.40, U-B= +1.33, R-I= +0.64
Diameter: 0.67 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.20 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.753179 degrees

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