Bonner Durchmusterung +62°780

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 215, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +62°780, Giclas (G) 249-18, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1782, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 466
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h45m48.097s, +62°14'11.98" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 45.6 light-years (14.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.7634%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.31, 21.2, 40.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -38.1, 21.1, 13.4
Proper motion: 0.838 arcsec/yr (166.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -19.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -13.1, -54.6, -17.6

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.02
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.29
Visual luminosity: 0.042 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.40, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.63
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.20 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.