Bonner Durchmusterung +4°158

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 6101, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +4°158 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 4849, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 109617, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 10369
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h2m24.543s, +5°3'40.62" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 70.0 light-years (21.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.3389%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 67.1, 18.7, 6.17
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -23.9, 29.2, -58.9
Proper motion: 0.386 arcsec/yr (54.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 19.7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -43.4, 6.20, -2.76

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K0
Luminosity Class: V?
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.16
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.50
Visual luminosity: 0.22 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.00
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.47 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.