Gliese & Jahreiss 1212

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1212, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3272, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 84277
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h13m40.485s, -8°25'14.98" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 61.8 light-years (19.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.3411%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -12.3, -59.9, -9.05
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 57.5, 14.2, 17.8
Proper motion: 0.604 arcsec/yr (223.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -15 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -4.24, -55.8, 6.13

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V?
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.61
Visual luminosity: 0.0049 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.61, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +1.10
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.070 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.