Bonner Durchmusterung +14°1684

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 276, Henry Draper (HD) 59582, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +14°1684, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 36551, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 247
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h31m7.652s, +14°36'51.1" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 69.3 light-years (21.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.6463%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -26.0, 61.8, 17.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -60.6, -27.6, 18.9
Proper motion: 0.297 arcsec/yr (167.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: 65.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -46.9, -53.4, 11.7

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.98
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.35
Visual luminosity: 0.10 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.10, U-B= +1.06, R-I= +0.45
Diameter: 0.74 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.32 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.247391 degrees

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