Bonner Durchmusterung +31°1168

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 40676, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +31°1168, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 28575, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 58670, AGK3 Reference (AGK3R) 5380
Arity: singular
Points of interest:
     This star was misidentified as BD +48°1318 in the 1991 edition of the Gliese catalog.

Right Ascension and Declination: 6h1m50.534s, +31°19'36.54" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 45 light-years (14 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.15%
Source for distance: ARI Data Base for Nearby Stars
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -0.3, 39, 24
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -45, -0.05, 3.8
Proper motion: 0.026 arcsec/yr (144.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -53.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: ARI Data Base for Nearby Stars
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 53, -1.7, -4.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.83
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.11
Visual luminosity: 0.1 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.07, U-B= +0.74
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.4 A.U.s

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 27-March-2001.