Bonner Durchmusterung -12°5594

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 773, Henry Draper (HD) 188807, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -12°5594, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 98204, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 163135, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 327, Luyten Double Star (LDS) 4824 , New Suspected Variable (NSV) 12593
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 19h57m19.701s, -12°34'4.25" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 61.6 light-years (18.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.7206%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 29.5, -52.4, -13.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 50.3, 28.2, -21.9
Proper motion: 0.516 arcsec/yr (189.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -10.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 9.22, -45.8, -7.95

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +7.91
Combined visual luminosity: 0.059 x Sol
Observed Separation: 1172 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -2.25
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -8.31


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3502
Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.92
Visual luminosity: 0.059 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.33, U-B= +1.21, R-I= +0.56
Diameter: 0.68 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.24 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.489281 degrees


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3503, Luyten Palomar (LP) 754-5
Right Ascension and Declination: 19h54m37s, -12°41'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 28.8, -52.8, -13.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 50.7, 27.9, -21.3
Proper motion: 0.52 arcsec/yr (188.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -10.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 8.74, -46.1, -8.91
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.36
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.98
Visual luminosity: 0.00022 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.54
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.015 A.U.s

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