Bonner Durchmusterung +8°2434

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 94765, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +8°2434, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 53486, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 118578, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 12921
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h56m30.826s, +7°23'18.53" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 57.2 light-years (17.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7756%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -54.6, 15.5, 7.36
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -13.4, -28.4, 47.8
Proper motion: 0.263 arcsec/yr (253.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.34
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.12
Visual luminosity: 0.31 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.92, U-B= +0.66
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.56 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.