33 Boötis

33 Boötis
Observation data
Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000
Constellation Boötes
Right ascension 14h 38m 50.22449s
Declination +44° 24 16.1979
Apparent magnitude (V) 5.39
Characteristics
Spectral type A1 V
B−V color index 0.030±0.003
Astrometry
Radial velocity (Rv)−13.0±4.2 km/s
Proper motion (μ) RA: –67.247 mas/yr
Dec.: −17.749 mas/yr
Parallax (π)17.3936±0.1330 mas
Distance188 ± 1 ly
(57.5 ± 0.4 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)1.61
Details
Mass2.25 M
Luminosity20.94 L
Surface gravity (log g)4.18 cgs
Temperature10,176±346 K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)86 km/s
Age142 Myr
Other designations
33 Boo, BD+45°2204, FK5 540, HD 129002, HIP 71618, HR 5468, SAO 45153
Database references
SIMBADdata

33 Boötis is a single star in the northern constellation Boötes, located 188 light years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.39. The object is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −13 km/s, and is catalogued as a member of the Pleiades supercluster.

This is an ordinary A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A1 V. It is a source of X-ray emission, but early A-type stars are not expected to be an X-ray source so this may indicate it has an undetected companion. 33 Boötis is 142 million years old with a projected rotational velocity of 86 km/s. The star has 2.25 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 21 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 10,176 K.