Bonner Durchmusterung +15°395

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 114, Henry Draper (HD) 17660, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +15°395 , Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1453, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 13258, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 93138
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h50m36.935s, +15°42'35.67" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 73.1 light-years (22.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.8951%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 51.8, 47.7, 19.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -54.7, 18.8, -44.8
Proper motion: 0.525 arcsec/yr (137.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -25 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 8.29, -60.3, 5.42

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K6
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.91
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.16
Visual luminosity: 0.12 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.20
Diameter: 0.71 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.34 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.097313 degrees

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