Bonner Durchmusterung +3°3531a

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 697.1, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +3°3531a, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 87745, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 324, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +3°2518-200
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h55m24.85s, +3°45'16" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 85.8 light-years (26.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.8084%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.71, -85.6, 5.62
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 72.1, 41.9, 20.2
Proper motion: 0.092 arcsec/yr (278.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 3 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 2.15, -2.99, 11.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0e
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.03
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.93
Visual luminosity: 0.059 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.34, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.58
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.24 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.