Gliese & Jahreiss 1080

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1080, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 206
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h25m38s, +2°56'42" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.4 light-years (19.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.0367%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.30, 61.6, 3.20
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -55.9, -20.8, -18.2
Proper motion: 1.186 arcsec/yr (198.1° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.80
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.39
Visual luminosity: 0.0024 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.60, U-B= +0.99, R-I= +1.06
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.049 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.