36 Comae Berenices (HIP 63355)

36 Comae Berenices is a red giant star in the constellation Coma Berenices. At 324 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 4.76. It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 23.9 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 24,000 and 34,900 light years from the center of the Galaxy.

Sky position: RA 12h 58.9m, Dec +17° 24.6'

Common designations: 36 Comae Berenices, HIP 63355, HD 112769, HR 4920

Glow-in-the-dark
Moon Calendar Magnet

Glows for hours and
will fascinate everyone!

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 36 Comae Berenices circled
Map detail from Stars of the Northern Hemisphere
Hover over other bright stars to identify or click to jump.

Galactic Orbit of 36 Comae Berenices
(compared to the Sun)

Eccentricity: 18.7% vs. 16.0%

Angle φ : -15.4° vs. 26.0°

Semi-major axis : 9,033 pc vs. 8,686 pc

Semi-minor axis: 8,874 pc vs. 8,574 pc

Focus-to-center: 1,685 pc vs. 1,388 pc

Semilatus rectum : 8,718 pc vs. 8,464 pc

Perigalacticon: 7,348 pc vs. 7,297 pc

Apogalacticon: 10,718 pc vs. 10,074 pc
 
Some Tabulated XHIP Data for 36 Comae Berenices
(see also: SIMBAD)

Astrometry
 2007A&A...474..653V
  Position Proper Motion
Right Ascension: 194.73110802° ±0.24 mas -37.45 ±0.23 mas/yr.
Declination: 17.40936045° ±0.20 mas 34.18 ±0.18 mas/yr.
     
Galactic Longitude: 313.40539298° -31.11 mas/yr.
Galactic Latitude: 80.12853119° 40.03 mas/yr.

Parallax: 10.06 ± 0.28 mas

Spectrography

Spectral Type: M0.5III 1989ApJS...71..245K.

Radial Velocity: -1.98 ±0.12 km/s [A rating] 2009A&A...498..627F, 2005A&A...430..165F.

Iron Abundance [Fe/H]: n/a
 


Photometry
 
band magnitude Abs. Mag.
U
B 6.33 1.34
V 4.76 -0.22
R
I 3.14 -1.84
J 1.63 -3.35
H 0.89 -4.09
K 0.80 -4.19

  B-V: +1.57       V-I: +1.62

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 99.31 pc (2.8% margin of error)

Galactocentric distance: 7,389 pc

Transverse velocity: 23.9 km/s

3D heliocentric position and motion:

toward:   

Galactic center Galactic rotation North Galactic Pole
Position ( X, Y, Z) 11.7 pc -12.4 pc 97.8 pc
Velocity (U, V, W) -23.6 km/s 3.7 km/s 1.3 km/s

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