Bonner Durchmusterung -10°47

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1008, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -10°47, Giclas (G) 158-59, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 1532, UGPMF 3
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h19m5.527s, -9°57'53.06" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 67.7 light-years (20.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.4669%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 66.5, 5.55, -11.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -3.64, 21.5, -64.1
Proper motion: 0.276 arcsec/yr (200.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.92
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.33
Visual luminosity: 0.041 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.33, U-B= +1.16, R-I= +0.59
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.