Bonner Durchmusterung +40°45

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 14, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +40°45, Giclas (G) 171-44, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1053, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 84, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 1368
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h17m6.362s, +40°56'54.1" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.9 light-years (15.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.6512%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 36.8, 2.75, 32.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.4, 40.8, -17.7
Proper motion: 0.562 arcsec/yr (79.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 3 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -37.2, -14.7, 0.67

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.99
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.11
Visual luminosity: 0.050 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.36
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.22 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.