Bonner Durchmusterung +67°1424

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 854, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +67°1424, Giclas (G) 241-2, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 109980, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 19977
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h16m31.71s, +68°20'24.18" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 78.2 light-years (24.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.0672%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 26.0, -12.6, 72.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -25.9, 72.6, 13.3
Proper motion: 0.372 arcsec/yr (88.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -3.8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -33.7, -11.9, -23.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K6
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.24
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.34
Visual luminosity: 0.10 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.15, U-B= +1.07
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.32 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.