Bonner Durchmusterung +27°1348

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 268.3, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +27°1348, Giclas (G) 109-55, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 35191, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 490
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h16m19.75s, +27°8'31.9" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 40.2 light-years (12.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.8992%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -11.7, 33.8, 18.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37.6, -7.34, 12.2
Proper motion: 0.24 arcsec/yr (187.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

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Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.83
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.38
Visual luminosity: 0.0062 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.54, U-B= +1.28, R-I= +1.12
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.078 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.