Bonner Durchmusterung -21°4352

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 622, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -21°4352, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3191, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 80440, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 7697
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h25m13.004s, -21°56'14.31" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 58.4 light-years (17.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.7759%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -21.8, -49.6, -21.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 55.3, -4.63, 18.2
Proper motion: 0.64 arcsec/yr (240.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.40
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.13
Visual luminosity: 0.019 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.45, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.71
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.14 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.