Bonner Durchmusterung +8°4887

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 863, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +8°4887, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3828, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 111313, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 208, Luyten FT (LFT) 1723
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h33m2.172s, +9°22'40.55" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 41.8 light-years (12.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.0427%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 38.3, -15.3, 6.81
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 7.46, 30.8, -27.2
Proper motion: 0.547 arcsec/yr (74.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -6.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -32.5, -6.73, -6.56

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.36
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.82
Visual luminosity: 0.010 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.51, U-B= +1.16, R-I= +0.83
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.10 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.