Help with Queen Alice's Star/DM +46 1797

[rfmcdpei]

Hi!

I'm trying to find an entry for Queen Alice's Star. It's listed with the above catalogue number, and is a K4 main sequence star, but I can't located it in the Internet Stellar Database. Um, help?

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Not sure if this will help...

Have you tried the US NASA (like fasa but real, except where they both took the crappy back corner of the Con floor and blew mostly everyone else away) and the ESA, if nothing else they might be able to point you in the right direction. Also JPL and several Observatories around the world, pick one near you. Hey, they may be real happy to hear from someone outside the field and give all sorts of good data. That's what I can come up off the top of my tired and up for 24 hours head....wow I should hit the rack soon.

 

[Anders]

According to my files it is Gliese 477.1 alias 477.1. Looking at the ARI website (I find it cool that ARI actually exists) I get this entry:

http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/datenbanken/aricns/cnspages/4c00981.htm

It has the alternative designations: Gl 477.1, HD: 109655, HIP: 61487, BD: +46° 1797, YPC: 2906.01 (the DM numbers of GDW are a combination of BD and CD numbers).

One irritating thing is that ARI gives its distance as -98.04±98.04 pc. The Hipparchos catalogue gives a parallax of 3.09 suggesting a distance of 63.3 ly. Sounds more reasonable, but of course somewhat annoying for 2300 use.

Another nice page is this:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/s...&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id
where one can even see pictures of the nearby sky.

 

[rfmcdpei]

One irritating thing is that ARI gives its distance as -98.04±98.04 pc. The Hipparchos catalogue gives a parallax of 3.09 suggesting a distance of 63.3 ly. Sounds more reasonable, but of course somewhat annoying for 2300 use.

That would explain why I wasn't able to find it at the Internet Stellar Database.

Ah, well, Nyotekundu is supposed to be 7.7ly from Sol, not 7.8ly.