Location of 64 Draconis (circled) | |
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Draco |
Right ascension | 20h01m 28.65587s[1] |
Declination | +64° 49′ 15.5038″[1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 5.27[2] |
Characteristics | |
Evolutionary stage | red giant |
Spectral type | M1 III[3] |
B−V color index | 1.598±0.006[4] |
Astrometry | |
Radial velocity (Rv) | −36.12±0.13[4] km/s |
Proper motion (μ) | RA: −24.818[1] mas/yr Dec.: +33.623[1] mas/yr |
Parallax (π) | 7.2102 ± 0.1296 mas[1] |
Distance | 452 ± 8 ly (139 ± 2 pc) |
Absolute magnitude (MV) | −1.05[4] |
Details | |
Radius | 65[1] R☉ |
Luminosity | 926[1] L☉ |
Temperature | 3,952[1] K |
Other designations | |
e Draconis, 64 Dra, BD+64°1405, FK5 3604, HD 190544, HIP 98583, HR 7676, SAO 18658[5] | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
64 Draconis is a single[6] star in the northern circumpolar constellationofDraco, located 452 light years away.[1] It has the Bayer designationofe Draconis; 64 Draconis is the Flamsteed designation. The object is visible to the naked eye as a dim, red-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.27.[2] It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −36 km/s, and it is predicted to come as close as 204 ly in around 4.3 million years.[4]
This is an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of M1 III,[3] currently on the asymptotic giant branch.[7] It has expanded to about 65 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 926 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperatureof3952 K. 64 Draconis forms a faint naked-eye pair with 65 Draconis 12′ away. The latter is a suspected variable with a brightness range in the Hipparcos photometric filter of 5.29 to 5.33.[8]
InChinese astronomy, it belongs to the 天廚 (Tiān Chú) (Celestial Kitchen) asterism.[citation needed]
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