Gliese 26

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 26, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 119, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +31°719
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h36m13s, +30°20'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 41.0 light-years (12.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.6928%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 35.0, 5.57, 20.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -17.2, 30.1, -21.8
Proper motion: 1.561 arcsec/yr (88.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -0.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -80.0, -47.6, -2.17

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.06
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.56
Visual luminosity: 0.0052 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.53
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.072 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.