Bonner Durchmusterung +17°2785

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 562, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +17°2785, Giclas (G) 136-13, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2974, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 72237, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 101203, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 722
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h46m23.261s, +16°29'47.86" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 57.4 light-years (17.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.218%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -41.1, -36.5, 16.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 26.8, 8.31, 50.1
Proper motion: 0.938 arcsec/yr (187.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: 44.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 64.6, -57.1, 26.4

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.25
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.03
Visual luminosity: 0.054 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.27, U-B= +1.17, R-I= +0.53
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.23 A.U.s

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.