Bonner Durchmusterung +24°739

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 32387, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +24°739, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 23550, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 76929, AGK3 Reference (AGK3R) 4487
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h3m51.963s, +24°58'21.63" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 258 light-years (79.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.4047%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 56.8, 227, 109
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -255, 6.85, -41.9
Proper motion: 0.174 arcsec/yr (135.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: 51.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -53.7, -63.1, 1.43

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G8
Luminosity Class: V?
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.43
Absolute visual magnitude: +2.94
Visual luminosity: 5.82 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.80
Comfort Zone (visual): 2.41 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.