Bonner Durchmusterung +11°514

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1063, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +11°514 , Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 429
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h44m51.073s, +11°55'11.69" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 68 light-years (21 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 11.1111%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 37, 55, 14
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -57, 3.8, -36
Proper motion: 0.32 arcsec/yr (67.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: 81.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -86, -5.8, -18

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.15
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.56
Visual luminosity: 0.08 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.18
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.3 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.