Bonner Durchmusterung +47°612

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 96, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +47°612 , Giclas (G) 173-53, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 96
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h22m14.646s, +47°52'48.1" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 37.6 light-years (11.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.125%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 20.5, 14.7, 27.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -27.6, 24.3, -7.72
Proper motion: 0.226 arcsec/yr (77.2° from north)
Radial Velocity: -37.3 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 19.6, -30.8, 14.4

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1.5e
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.41
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.10
Visual luminosity: 0.020 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.49
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.14 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.