HD 181068, a type G5 star in Lyra

HD 181068 (HIP 94780)

HD 181068 is a type G5 star in the constellation Lyra. At 801 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 7.10. The iron abundance of HD 181068 is +0.05 (112.2% of the Sun). It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 11.1 km/s relative to the Sun. Its projected Galactic orbit carries it between 23,500 and 35,200 light years from the center of the Galaxy.

Sky position: RA 19h 17.1m, Dec +41° 15.6'

Common designations: HIP 94780, HD 181068

Galactic Orbit of HD 181068
(compared to the Sun)

E

ccentricity: 19.9% vs. 16.0%

Angle φ : 25.2°vs. 26.0°

Semi-major axis : 9,006 pc vs. 8,686 pc

Semi-minor axis: 8,827 pc vs. 8,574 pc

Focus-to-center

: 1,788 pcvs. 1,388 pc

Semilatus rectum : 8,651 pc vs. 8,464 pc

Perigalacticon: 7,218 pc vs. 7,297 pc

Apogalacticon

: 10,795 pcvs. 10,074 pc
  Some Tabulated XHIP Data for HD 181068
(see also: SIMBAD)

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

Position	Proper Motion
Right Ascension:	289.28740902° ±0.35 mas	0.61 ±0.33 mas/yr.
Declination:	41.26482803° ±0.34 mas	-8.09 ±0.39 mas/yr.
Galactic Longitude:	72.86860530°	-7.09 mas/yr.
Galactic Latitude:	13.05260440°	-3.95 mas/yr.

Parallax: 4.02 ± 0.40 mas

Spectrography

Spectral Type: G5 1993BICDS..43....5T : S.

Radial Velocity: 5.83 ±999.00 km/s [D rating] 2009A&A...504..829G.

Iron Abundance [Fe/H]: 0.05 ±0.05 dex  2009A&A...504..829G.
 

Photometry
 

band	magnitude	Abs. Mag.
U
B	8.01	1.05
V	7.10	0.15
R
I	6.29	-0.66
J	5.43	-1.52
H	5.05	-1.90
K	4.94	-2.01

B-V: +0.91 V-I: +0.81

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 245.84 pc (10.0% margin of error)

Galactocentric distance: 7,334 pc

Transverse velocity: 9.5 km/s

3D heliocentric position and motion:

toward:	Galactic center	Galactic rotation	North Galactic Pole
Position ( X, Y, Z)	70.5 pc	228.9 pc	55.5 pc
Velocity (U, V, W)	9.9 km/s	4.0 km/s	-3.2 km/s