Bonner Durchmusterung +57°2735

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 895, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +57°2735, Giclas (G) 217-7, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 115562, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 211
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h24m30.569s, +57°51'14.94" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 42.8 light-years (13.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.8161%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 22.5, -3.51, 36.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16.0, 39.6, -2.18
Proper motion: 0.287 arcsec/yr (185.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -33.8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 19.6, -29.4, -14.6

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2e
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.03
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.44
Visual luminosity: 0.015 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.50, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.86
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.12 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.