Bonner Durchmusterung +63°869

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 373, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +63°869, Giclas (G) 235-49, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2211, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 48714, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 121
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 9h56m8.657s, +62°47'18.59" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 34.2 light-years (10.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.2422%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -13.4, 8.04, 30.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.8, 12.4, 24.1
Proper motion: 0.658 arcsec/yr (207.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 14.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -24.5, -23.4, 12.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.99
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.88
Visual luminosity: 0.024 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.43, U-B= +1.19, R-I= +0.73
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.16 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.