Xi2 Sagittarii is a white to yellow giant star that can be located in the constellation of Sagittarius. The star can be seen with the naked eye, that is, you don't need a telescope/binoculars to see it.
Xi2 Sagittarii is the Bayer Classification for the star. HIP93085 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD175775. The Id of the star in the Gould Star Catalogue is 120. Stars in the southern hemisphere are more likely to have a Gould Id than the northern hemisphere. For example, there are no Gould classified stars in Ursa Major.
Xi2 Sagittarii has alternative name(s), 37 Sagittarii , 37 Sgr.
The location of the star in the galaxy 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 star is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For Xi2 Sagittarii, the location is 18h 57m 43.78 and -21d06`23.8 .
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 -13.33 ± 0.43 miliarcseconds/year towards the north and 31.72 ± 0.53 miliarcseconds/year east if we saw them in the horizon.
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 113.0000000 that I have given is based on the Spectral Types page that I have found on the Internet. You might find a different figure, one that may have been calculated rather than generalised that I have done. The figure is always the amount times the luminosity of the Sun. It is an imprecise figure because of a number of factors including but not limited to whether the star is a variable star and distance.
Xi2 Sagittarii has a spectral type of G8/K0II/III. This means the star is a white to yellow giant star. The star is 7294.00000000 Parsecs from the Galactic Centre or terms of Light Years is 23790.3543113600000000s. The star has a B-V Colour Index of 1.15 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 4,576 Kelvin.
Xi2 Sagittarii Radius has been calculated as being 33.57 times bigger than the Sun.The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 23,357,866.70.km. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 32.96. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures. The star's Iron Abundance is -0.05 with an error value of 0.04 Fe/H with the Sun has a value of 1 to put it into context.
Xi2 Sagittarii has an apparent magnitude of 3.52 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 -1.77 If you used the 2007 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of -1.73. 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 8.76 which gave the calculated distance to Xi2 Sagittarii as 372.33 light years away from Earth or 114.16 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 372.33 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 8.93 which put Xi2 Sagittarii at a distance of 365.24 light years or 111.98 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.
The star's Galacto-Centric Distance is 7,294.00 Parsecs or 23,790.35 Light Years. The Galacto-Centric Distance is the distance from the star to the Centre of the Galaxy which is Sagittarius A*.
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.
|Short Name||37 Sgr|
|Bayer Designation||Xi2 Sagittarii|
|Alternative Name(s)||37 Sagittarii|
|Hipparcos Library I.D.||93085|
|Bonner Durchmusterung||BDD-21 5201|
|Henry Draper Designation||175775|
|Star Type||giant star|
|Absolute Magnitude||-1.77 / -1.73|
|Visual / Apparent Magnitude||3.52|
|Naked Eye Visible||Yes - Ref: Wiki|
|Right Ascension (R.A.)||18h 57m 43.78|
|Galactic Latitude||-10.78 degrees|
|Galactic Longitude||14.61 degrees|
|1997 Distance from Earth||8.76 Parallax (milliarcseconds)|
|372.33 Light Years|
|2007 Revised Distance from Earth||8.93 Parallax (milliarcseconds)|
|365.24 Light Years|
|Galacto-Centric Distance||23,790.35 Light Years / 7,294.00 Parsecs|
|Proper Motion Dec.||-13.33 ± 0.43 milliarcseconds/year|
|Proper Motion RA.||31.72 ± 0.53 milliarcseconds/year|
|Radial Velocity||-20.10 ± 0.70 km/s|
|Iron Abundance||-0.05 ± 0.04 Fe/H|
|Colour||(G) White to Yellow|
|Luminosity (x the Sun)||113.0000000|
|Calculated Effective Temperature||4,576 Kelvin|