Steph 538

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Steph 538, Rob 285, Luyten Palomar (LP) 476-207
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 4h59m14s, +9°54'47" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 23 light-years (7.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 18.3908%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 5.9, 22, 4.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -21, -4.0, -7.4
Proper motion: 0.12 arcsec/yr (157.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.47
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.23
Visual luminosity: 0.001 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.52, U-B= +0.98, R-I= +1.24
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.03 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.