35 Comae Berenices (HIP 62886)

35 Comae Berenices is a yellow giant star in the constellation Coma Berenices. At 281 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 4.89. 35 Comae Berenices is a multiple-star system. The iron abundance of 35 Comae Berenices is +0.25 (177.8% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 23.4 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 21,800 and 24,200 light years from the center of the Galaxy.

Sky position: RA 12h 53.3m, Dec +21° 15'

Common designations: 35 Comae Berenices, HIP 62886, HD 112033, HR 4894

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Brightest stars in Coma Berenices:
(list all)

1

|    4.23

)   Beta Comae Berenices

2

|    4.32

)   Diadem

3

|    4.35

)   Gamma Comae Berenices

4

|    4.72

)   11 Comae Berenices

5

|    4.76

)   36 Comae Berenices

6

|    4.78

)   12 Comae Berenices

7

|    4.80

)   23 Comae Berenices

8

|    4.80

)   41 Comae Berenices

9

|    4.88

)   37 Comae Berenices

10

|    4.89

)   35 Comae Berenices

11

|    4.92

)   14 Comae Berenices

12

|    4.93

)   7 Comae Berenices

13

|    4.93

)   31 Comae Berenices

14

|    4.98

)   16 Comae Berenices

15

|    4.99

)   HR 4668

16

|    5.03

)   24 Comae Berenices A

17

|    5.09

)   6 Comae Berenices

Location of 35 Comae Berenices circled
Map detail from Stars of the Northern Hemisphere
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Galactic Orbit of 35 Comae Berenices
(compared to the Sun)

Eccentricity: 5.1% vs. 16.0%

Angle φ : 162.7° vs. 26.0°

Semi-major axis : 7,056 pc vs. 8,686 pc

Semi-minor axis: 7,047 pc vs. 8,574 pc

Focus-to-center: 357 pc vs. 1,388 pc

Semilatus rectum : 7,038 pc vs. 8,464 pc

Perigalacticon: 6,699 pc vs. 7,297 pc

Apogalacticon: 7,413 pc vs. 10,074 pc
 
Some Tabulated XHIP Data for 35 Comae Berenices
(see also: SIMBAD)

Astrometry
 2007A&A...474..653V
  Position Proper Motion
Right Ascension: 193.32404415° ±0.71 mas -48.10 ±1.60 mas/yr.
Declination: 21.24502027° ±0.52 mas -27.40 ±1.60 mas/yr.
     
Galactic Longitude: 307.14907340° -49.91 mas/yr.
Galactic Latitude: 84.10154849° -23.95 mas/yr.

Parallax: 11.52 ± 0.87 mas

Spectrography

Spectral Type: G7III 1989ApJS...71..245K.

Radial Velocity: -6.10 ±0.20 km/s [A rating] 2006AstL...32..759G.

Iron Abundance [Fe/H]: 0.25 ±0.06 dex  1990ApJS...74.1075M.
 


Photometry
 
band magnitude Abs. Mag.
U
B 5.79 1.12
V 4.89 0.21
R
I 4.11 -0.56
J
H
K

  B-V: +0.90       V-I: +0.78

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 86.22 pc (7.6% margin of error)

Galactocentric distance: 7,395 pc

Transverse velocity: 22.6 km/s

3D heliocentric position and motion:

toward:   

Galactic center Galactic rotation North Galactic Pole
Position ( X, Y, Z) 5.4 pc -7.1 pc 85.8 pc
Velocity (U, V, W) -10.8 km/s -19.6 km/s -7.1 km/s

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