22 Lyncis

light-years
Proper names: 22 Lyncis
Catalog numbers:
     Woolley (Wo) 9234, Henry Draper (HD) 58855, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +49°1630, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 36439, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 41808, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 2849
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h29m56s, +49°40'20.7" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 64.9 light-years (19.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5864%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16.1, 38.8, 49.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -56.7, 11.4, 29.4
Proper motion: 0.139 arcsec/yr (133.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -26.7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 24.6, -15.9, -5.30

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: F6
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.37
Absolute visual magnitude: +3.88
Visual luminosity: 2.45 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.45, U-B= -0.06
Diameter: 1.22 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.56 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.415517 degrees

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