Bonner Durchmusterung +6°2986

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 576, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +6°2986, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3020, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 73786, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 158
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 15h4m53.576s, +5°38'17.54" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.6 light-years (19.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.6428%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -43.1, -45.0, 6.15
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 39.2, 3.60, 48.7
Proper motion: 0.746 arcsec/yr (229.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: -68 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -47.3, -71.0, -44.1

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.83
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.41
Visual luminosity: 0.038 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.31, U-B= +1.12, R-I= +0.58
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.19 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.