Bonner Durchmusterung +67°552

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 310, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +67°552, Giclas (G) 234-38, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 251, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 42220, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 254
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 8h36m25.401s, +67°17'42.37" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 45.3 light-years (13.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7208%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -11.0, 13.6, 41.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -31.3, 19.6, 26.3
Proper motion: 1.066 arcsec/yr (272.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -49.3, 14.1, -49.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.28
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.57
Visual luminosity: 0.033 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.71
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.18 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.