Bonner Durchmusterung +79°38

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 56.4, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +79°38 , Giclas (G) 242-78, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 91
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h21m31.107s, +80°9'6.09" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 58 light-years (18 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 11.1111%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.3, 3.5, 57
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -31, 46, 18
Proper motion: 0.33 arcsec/yr (108.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -14 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -16, -25, -9.1

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.66
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.40
Visual luminosity: 0.04 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.29
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.2 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.