Bonner Durchmusterung -5°4426

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 668.1, Henry Draper (HD) 156826, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -5°4426, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 84801, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 141611, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 6439
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h19m59.56s, -5°55'2.71" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 38 light-years (12 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 13.2653%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -6.6, -38, -4.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 35, 11, 11
Proper motion: 0.186 arcsec/yr (168.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: -33.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -26, -16, -16

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G9
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.31
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.96
Visual luminosity: 0.4 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.85, U-B= +0.47, R-I= +0.31
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.6 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.