Star in the constellation Draco
This article is about i Draconis. Not to be confused with
ι Draconis .
10 Draconis is a single[ 8] star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco . It was a latter designation of 87 Ursae Majoris ,[ 9] and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of about 4.6.[ 3] The distance to this star, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 8.2 mas ,[ 2] is around 400 light years . It is moving closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of −12 km/s, and is expected to come to within 84 ly in about 8.6 million years.[ 5]
Estimated to be around 10 billion years old, this is an aging red giant star with a stellar classification of M3.5 III.[ 4] It is a periodic variable with a frequency of 11.98912 cycles per day and an amplitude of 0.0254 in magnitude.[ 10] The spectrum does not show evidence of s-process enhancement.[ 11] 10 Dra has 93% of the mass of the Sun but has expanded to about 83 times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating over 1,000 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,584 K.[ 6]
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