Wolf 906

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 816, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3612, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 103800, Wolf 906, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 8338
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h1m58.681s, -6°19'8.04" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 45.1 light-years (13.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.8017%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.9, -31.4, -4.96
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.7, 26.2, -24.1
Proper motion: 0.515 arcsec/yr (201.9° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.23
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.53
Visual luminosity: 0.0053 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.49, R-I= +1.04
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.073 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.