Bonner Durchmusterung +11°878

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 208, Henry Draper Extension (HDE) 245409, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +11°878, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 26335, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 94695, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 464
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h36m30.944s, +11°19'40.43" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 37.1 light-years (11.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.4464%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 3.72, 36.2, 7.29
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -35.4, -9.04, -6.69
Proper motion: 0.057 arcsec/yr (195.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 21.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -19.3, -7.14, -6.00

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.81
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.53
Visual luminosity: 0.034 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.40, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.65
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.18 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.