Bonner Durchmusterung -6°6318

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 912, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -6°6318, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 4047, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 117966
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h55m39.8s, -6°8'32.78" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 56 light-years (17 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.9127%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 56, -1.1, -6.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 0.08, 24, -51
Proper motion: 0.58 arcsec/yr (232.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.14
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.95
Visual luminosity: 0.009 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.48, U-B= +1.14, R-I= +0.98
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.