Bonner Durchmusterung -2°3000

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 372, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -2°3000, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 6, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 48477, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 560, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 4664
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h53m11.803s, -3°41'24.29" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 51.1 light-years (15.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.8027%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -43.4, 26.8, -3.29
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -18.9, -35.9, 31.1
Proper motion: 0.471 arcsec/yr (191.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.53
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.56
Visual luminosity: 0.013 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.52, U-B= +1.20, R-I= +0.98
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.