Gliese 625

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 625, Giclas (G) 202-48, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 80459, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 767, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +54°1646-56, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +55°41703
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h25m24.668s, +54°18'15.31" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 21.47 light-years (6.582 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.7253%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -5.024, -11.47, 17.43
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.922, 15.67, 14.54
Proper motion: 0.42 arcsec/yr (108.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -12.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 6.328, -2.374, -16.88

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.13
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.04
Visual luminosity: 0.00335 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.61, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.96
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0579 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.