9 Puppis

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Proper names: 9 Puppis
Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 291, Henry Draper (HD) 64096, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -13°2267, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 38382, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 153500, Aitken Double Star (ADS) 6420, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 3064, S.W. Burnham (BU) 101
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h51m46.294s, -13°53'52.85" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 54.4 light-years (16.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5592%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -24.7, 46.6, -13.1
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -32.7, -42.9, 6.66
Proper motion: 0.35 arcsec/yr (191.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -21.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 28.0, 2.63, -20.8

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +4.06
Combined visual luminosity: 2.07 x Sol
Period: 23.18 years
Semimajor Axis: 9.67 A.U.s
Eccentricity: 0.69
Periastron distance: 3.00 A.U.s
Apastron distance: 16.3 A.U.s
Year in which periastron occurs: 1915.71
Source for orbit data: R. Woolley & L.Symms
As seen from A:
     At periastron, B would appear as magnitude -24.13
     At apastron, B would appear as magnitude -20.45
As seen from B:
     At periastron, A would appear as magnitude -24.58
     At apastron, A would appear as magnitude -20.90

Data for A and B's orbit, take 2:
Period: 23.3 years
Semimajor Axis: 10.4 A.U.s
Source for orbit data: Gliese
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -21.43
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -21.88


Component A:
NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: F9
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.72
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.61
Visual luminosity: 1.25 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.57, U-B= +0.05
Diameter: 1.01 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.12 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.482107 degrees


Component B:
Spectral class: G4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.17
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.06
Visual luminosity: 0.82 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.65, U-B= +0.14
Diameter: 0.91 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.91 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.534402 degrees

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