Bonner Durchmusterung +41°2695

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 619, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +41°2695, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 80093, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 46038, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 763
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h20m52.704s, +40°57'41.68" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 51.9 light-years (15.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.4115%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16.4, -35.6, 34.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 15.7, 33.3, 36.6
Proper motion: 0.122 arcsec/yr (347.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 7.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -6.44, 7.42, 6.65

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0p
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.99
Visual luminosity: 0.055 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.30, U-B= +1.17, R-I= +0.56
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.23 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.