Bonner Durchmusterung +43°2135

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 101206, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +43°2135, Giclas (G) 122-38, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 6, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 56829, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 43847, AGK3 Reference (AGK3R) 10454, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 13186
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 11h38m59.719s, +42°19'43.89" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 64.4 light-years (19.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.2218%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -47.4, 4.36, 43.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -21.6, 6.97, 60.3
Proper motion: 0.454 arcsec/yr (343.2° from north)
Radial Velocity: 14.8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -29.9, 33.6, 1.21

What do all these fields mean?


NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.26
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.78
Visual luminosity: 0.17 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.96, U-B= +0.82
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.41 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.