Bonner Durchmusterung -11°2741

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 369, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -11°2741, Giclas (G) 161-80, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 274, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 48336, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 155530, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 27, Luyten FT (LFT) 685
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h51m9.4s, -12°19'44.4" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 38.5 light-years (11.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 8.225%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -31.8, 20.0, -8.21
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -11.4, -30.8, 20.0
Proper motion: 1.791 arcsec/yr (143.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: 62.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 72.8, -89.9, 22.5

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.04
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.68
Visual luminosity: 0.012 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.48, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.78
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.11 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.