Bonner Durchmusterung -12°6393

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 883, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -12°6393, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 113552, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 338, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 14383
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h59m53.68s, -11°22'52.5" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 86.1 light-years (26.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.3723%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 81.5, -21.9, -17.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.8, 37.4, -74.4
Proper motion: 0.229 arcsec/yr (92.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -20 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -29.3, -18.3, 5.34

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.57
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.46
Visual luminosity: 0.036 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, R-I= +0.64
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.19 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.