Bonner Durchmusterung +3°3032

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 585.1, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +3°3032, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 75686, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 742
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 15h27m42.711s, +2°35'51.94" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 83.6 light-years (25.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.1738%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -51.5, -65.7, 3.79
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 59.0, 7.06, 58.8
Proper motion: 0.05 arcsec/yr (259.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.21
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.16
Visual luminosity: 0.047 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.34, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.57
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.22 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.