Bonner Durchmusterung +11°2874

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 600, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +11°2874, Giclas (G) 137-59, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 77725, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 101784, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 318
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 15h52m8.239s, +10°52'28.28" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 73.7 light-years (22.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.4039%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -38.3, -61.4, 13.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 49.4, 19.1, 51.2
Proper motion: 0.358 arcsec/yr (228.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: -0.7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 3.73, -37.0, 9.22

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.38
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.61
Visual luminosity: 0.079 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, U-B= +1.27, R-I= +0.65
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.28 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.