HIP117853 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD223967.
DV Tucanae has alternative name(s) :- DV Tuc, DV Tuc.
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The location of the giant star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For DV Tucanae, the location is 23h 54m 12.76 and -59° 32` 31.4 .
All stars like planets orbit round a central spot, in the case of planets, its the central star such as the Sun. In the case of a star, its the galactic centre. The constellations that we see today will be different than they were 50,000 years ago or 50,000 years from now. Proper Motion details the movements of these stars and are measured in milliarcseconds. The star is moving 7.36 ± 0.34 milliarcseconds/year towards the north and 22.75 ± 0.48 milliarcseconds/year east if we saw them in the horizon.
The Radial Velocity, that is the speed at which the star is moving away/towards the Sun is 8.50 km/s with an error of about 3.70 km/s . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.
Luminosity is the amount of energy that a star pumps out and its relative to the amount that our star, the Sun gives out. The figure of 61.23 that I have given is based on the value in the Simbad Hipparcos Extended Catalogue at the University of Strasbourg from 2012.
DV Tucanae has a spectral type of B8/9IIIp:. This means the star is a blue giant star. The star has a B-V Colour Index of -0.04 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 10,195 Kelvin.
Radius has been calculated as being 2.15 times bigger than the Sun. The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 1,494,879.90.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 2.19. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
DV Tucanae has an apparent magnitude of 7.05 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. If you used the 1997 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.72 If you used the 2007 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.68. Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 5.41 which gave the calculated distance to DV Tucanae as 602.89 light years away from Earth or 184.84 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 602.89 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
In 2007, Hipparcos data was revised with a new parallax of 5.31 which put DV Tucanae at a distance of 614.24 light years or 188.32 parsecs. It should not be taken as though the star is moving closer or further away from us. It is purely that the distance was recalculated.
Using the 2007 distance, the star is roughly 38,843,517.65 Astronomical Units from the Earth/Sun give or take a few. An Astronomical Unit is the distance between Earth and the Sun. The number of A.U. is the number of times that the star is from the Earth compared to the Sun.
The star's Galacto-Centric Distance is 7,327.00 Parsecs or 23,897.99 Light Years. The Galacto-Centric Distance is the distance from the star to the Centre of the Galaxy which is Sagittarius A*.
The star is a rotating Alpha2 Canum Venatic variable type which means that its size changes over time. The Variable Type is usually named after the first star of that type to be spotted. DV Tucanae brightness ranges from a magnitude of 7.063 to a magnitude of 7.029 over its variable period. The smaller the magnitude, the brighter the star. Its variable/pulsating period lasts for 1.3 days (variability).
The source of the information if it has a Hip I.D. is from Simbad, the Hipparcos data library based at the University at Strasbourg, France. Hipparcos was a E.S.A. satellite operation launched in 1989 for four years. The items in red are values that I've calculated so they could well be wrong. Information regarding Metallicity and/or Mass is from the E.U. Exoplanets. The information was obtained as of 12th Feb 2017.
|Primary / Proper / Traditional Name||DV Tucanae|
|Alternative Names||DV Tuc, HD 223967, HIP 117853, DV Tuc|
|Constellation's Main Star||No|
|Multiple Star System||No / Unknown|
|Star Type||Giant Star|
|Absolute Magnitude||0.72 / 0.68|
|Visual / Apparent Magnitude||7.05|
|Naked Eye Visible||Requires a 7x50 Binoculars - Magnitudes|
|Right Ascension (R.A.)||23h 54m 12.76|
|Declination (Dec.)||-59° 32` 31.4|
|Galactic Latitude||-56.12 degrees|
|Galactic Longitude||315.92 degrees|
|1997 Distance from Earth||5.41 Parallax (milliarcseconds)|
|602.89 Light Years|
|2007 Distance from Earth||5.31 Parallax (milliarcseconds)|
|614.24 Light Years|
|38,843,517.65 Astronomical Units|
|Galacto-Centric Distance||23,897.99 Light Years / 7,327.00 Parsecs|
|Proper Motion Dec.||7.36 ± 0.34 milliarcseconds/year|
|Proper Motion RA.||22.75 ± 0.48 milliarcseconds/year|
|Radial Velocity||8.50 ± 3.70 km/s|
|Stellar Luminosity (Lsun)||61.23|
|Variable Star Class||Rotating|
|Variable Star Type||Alpha2 Canum Venatic|
|Mean Variability Period in Days||1.277|
|Variable Magnitude Range (Brighter - Dimmer)||7.029 - 7.063|
|Radius (x the Sun)||2.19|
|Effective Temperature||10,195 Kelvin|
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