Bonner Durchmusterung -8°2689

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 346, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -8°2689, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 268
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h26m24s, -9°2'47" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 67 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 14.0351%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -52, 41, -10
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -27, -52, 32
Proper motion: 0.05 arcsec/yr (158.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.52
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.97
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.43, U-B= +1.02, R-I= +0.72
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.1 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.