Bonner Durchmusterung -8°2582

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 334, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -8°2582, Giclas (G) 114-35, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 44722, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 136586, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 538
Arity: possible spectroscopic binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h6m45.415s, -8°48'24.36" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 47.4 light-years (14.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.5474%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -34.1, 32.1, -7.25
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -22.2, -36.6, 20.2
Proper motion: 0.376 arcsec/yr (305.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: 37.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -40.2, -18.9, 8.47

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.50
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.69
Visual luminosity: 0.029 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, U-B= +1.26, R-I= +0.68
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.17 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.