HD 65750, a red bright giant star in Carina

HD 65750 (HIP 38834)

HD 65750 is a red bright giant star in the constellation Carina. At 1,240 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 7.06. The iron abundance of HD 65750 is -0.4 (39.8% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 29.6 km/s relative to the Sun and is part of the Diamond Cluster moving group. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 19,800 and 24,300 light years from the center of the Galaxy.

Sky position: RA 7h 56.8m, Dec -59° 7.8'

Common designations: HIP 38834, HD 65750

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Galactic Orbit of HD 65750
(compared to the Sun)

E

ccentricity: 10.2% vs. 16.0%

Angle φ : 159.7°vs. 26.0°

Semi-major axis : 6,756 pc vs. 8,686 pc

Semi-minor axis: 6,720 pc vs. 8,574 pc

Focus-to-center

: 691 pcvs. 1,388 pc

Semilatus rectum : 6,685 pc vs. 8,464 pc

Perigalacticon: 6,064 pc vs. 7,297 pc

Apogalacticon

: 7,447 pcvs. 10,074 pc
  Some Tabulated XHIP Data for HD 65750
(see also: SIMBAD)

Astrometry
2007A&A...474..653V

Position	Proper Motion
Right Ascension:	119.21229757° ±0.36 mas	-3.09 ±0.36 mas/yr.
Declination:	-59.12578794° ±0.41 mas	8.95 ±0.46 mas/yr.
Galactic Longitude:	272.24599530°	-9.36 mas/yr.
Galactic Latitude:	-15.23531922°	1.43 mas/yr.

Parallax: 3.81 ± 0.40 mas

Spectrography

Spectral Type: M1II 1989ApJS...71..245K.

Radial Velocity: 24.20 ±0.50 km/s [A rating] 2006AstL...32..759G.

Iron Abundance [Fe/H]: -0.40 dex  2000A&A...364..674C.
 

Photometry
 

band	magnitude	Abs. Mag.
U
B	9.09	1.18
V	7.06	-0.84
R
I	4.37	-3.53
J	2.33	-5.57
H	1.44	-6.46
K	1.11	-6.79

B-V: +2.03 V-I: +2.69

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 380.48 pc (fitted to cluster)

Galactocentric distance: 7,395 pc

Transverse velocity: 17.1 km/s

3D heliocentric position and motion:

toward:	Galactic center	Galactic rotation	North Galactic Pole
Position ( X, Y, Z)	14.4 pc	-366.8 pc	-100.0 pc
Velocity (U, V, W)	-15.9 km/s	-24.7 km/s	-3.9 km/s