Bonner Durchmusterung -7°699

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 156, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -7°699 , Giclas (G) 160-35, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 5087 , Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 434
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h54m35.451s, -6°49'34.15" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 46.7 light-years (14.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 8.0369%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 24.1, 39.6, -5.55
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -33.5, -10.1, -31.0
Proper motion: 0.531 arcsec/yr (357.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: 64.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -66.3, 13.2, -29.9

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.02
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.24
Visual luminosity: 0.044 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.36
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.21 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.