Bonner Durchmusterung +6°1155

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 42618, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +6°1155, Giclas (G) 102-57, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 29432, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 113580, AGK3 Reference (AGK3R) 5542, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 11802
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h12m0.566s, +6°46'59.16" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 75.4 light-years (23.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.9714%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -3.92, 74.8, 8.91
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -69.3, -29.0, -6.59
Proper motion: 0.319 arcsec/yr (142.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -52.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 61.0, -11.9, 10.2

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.88
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.06
Visual luminosity: 0.82 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.63, U-B= +0.13
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.91 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.