Gliese & Jahreiss 1156

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1156, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 324
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 12h16m32s, +11°24'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 21.3 light-years (6.54 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.9243%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.9, -1.51, 4.22
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 0.68, -6.46, 20.3
Proper motion: 1.301 arcsec/yr (279.1° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.81
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.73
Visual luminosity: 0.00011 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.88, U-B= +1.05, R-I= +1.59
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.011 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.