Bonner Durchmusterung -6°15

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -6°15, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 897, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 353, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 74
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h11m4.619s, -5°47'2.31" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 83.2 light-years (25.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.5207%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 82.7, 4.00, -8.39
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -4.99, 32.7, -76.4
Proper motion: 0.252 arcsec/yr (88.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -5.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -26.7, -15.6, 0.71

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.86
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.82
Visual luminosity: 0.026 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.47, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.72
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.16 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.