Steph 1422

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -5°4394, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 83405, Steph 1422
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h2m49.868s, -6°4'3.54" (epoch 1970.0)
Distance from Sol: 65 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 13.7931%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16, -63, -6.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 59, 15, 23

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Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.84
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.33
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.50, U-B= +1.22, R-I= +0.78
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.1 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.