Bonner Durchmusterung -13°5069

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 724, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -13°5069, Giclas (G) 155-33, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3403, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 91608, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 11193
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h40m57.344s, -13°22'46.78" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 52.9 light-years (16.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.28%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.15, -50.7, -12.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 49.5, 18.2, -4.03
Proper motion: 0.671 arcsec/yr (186.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.63
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.58
Visual luminosity: 0.013 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.50, U-B= +1.21, R-I= +0.84
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.11 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.