Bonner Durchmusterung +81°297

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 341.1, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +81°297, Giclas (G) 253-26, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 46417, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 1518, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 119
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h27m55.877s, +80°34'48.71" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 74.9 light-years (23.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.3548%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -9.66, 7.55, 73.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -41.7, 46.9, 41.0
Proper motion: 0.446 arcsec/yr (179.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -21.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -6.91, -51.1, 12.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.30
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.49
Visual luminosity: 0.088 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.23, U-B= +1.21, R-I= +0.46
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.30 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.