Bonner Durchmusterung -16°6046

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 851.3, Henry Draper (HD) 211038, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -16°6046, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 109822, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 164949, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 1582, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 8921
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h14m38.23s, -15°49'6.75" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 39 light-years (12 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 13.5417%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 34, -17, -11
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18, 16, -31
Proper motion: 0.354 arcsec/yr (180.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 13, -13, -14

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.54
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.14
Visual luminosity: 0.3 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.90, U-B= +0.57, R-I= +0.33
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.6 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.