15 Boötis

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15 Boötis
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Boötes
Right ascension 14h 14m 50.85024s[1]
Declination +10° 06′ 02.1964″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.45 (5.51 + 8.53)[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K1 III[3]
B−V color index 1.007±0.003[4]
Distance
260 ± 10 ly
(81 ± 4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)0.75[4]
Details
Myr
HR 5330, SAO 100934, CCDM 14148+1006, WDS J14148+1006[8]
Database references
SIMBADdata

15 Boötis is a

arc seconds per annum.[9] It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +16.8 km/s.[4]

The magnitude 5.51

luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,845 K.[5]

Its companion, component B, is a magnitude +8.53 star

along a position angle of 111° from the primary, as of 2015. This is the same separation it had when the system was discovered in 1936.[10]

References