Bonner Durchmusterung -5°3853

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 542.2, Henry Draper (HD) 125354, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -5°3853, Giclas (G) 124-22, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 69962, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 715, Woolley (Wo) 9477
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h18m58.277s, -6°36'13.37" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 70.2 light-years (21.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.59%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -57.3, -39.7, -8.07
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42.4, -16.3, 53.5
Proper motion: 0.43 arcsec/yr (184.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: 9.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 21.7, -36.1, -15.6

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.12
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.46
Visual luminosity: 0.091 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.30, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.56
Diameter: 0.73 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.30 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.292544 degrees

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