Bonner Durchmusterung +13°3578

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 708.2, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +13°3578, Giclas (G) 140-49, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3373, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 89517, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 179
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h16m2.243s, +13°54'48.24" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.0 light-years (19.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.496%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 4.21, -60.1, 14.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 44.9, 40.2, 14.5
Proper motion: 0.501 arcsec/yr (170.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 37.2, -16.4, -22.6

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.18
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.79
Visual luminosity: 0.027 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.44, U-B= +1.24, R-I= +0.69
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.16 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.