Rob 299

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Rob 299, Steph 1950
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h49m40s, +5°23'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 51 light-years (16 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.8831%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 43, -27, 4.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 19, 37, -30
Proper motion: 0.171 arcsec/yr (131.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.11
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.14
Visual luminosity: 0.003 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.53, U-B= +1.09, R-I= +1.09
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.06 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.