Bonner Durchmusterung +35°2774

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 612.1, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +35°2774, Giclas (G) 180-33, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3155, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 78931, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 59
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h6m42.122s, +34°37'28.51" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 65 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.443%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -26, -47, 37
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 25, 36, 48
Proper motion: 0.622 arcsec/yr (153.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: 8.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 58, -6.0, -14

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.44
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.92
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.24, U-B= +1.25, R-I= +0.50
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.