ER 8

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     ER 8
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h10m11s, -47°12'11" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.2 light-years (14.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.6544%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -31.3, -9.88, -35.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.8, -37.3, 12.7
Proper motion: 2.127 arcsec/yr (268.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC9+
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +17.05
Absolute visual magnitude: +16.20
Visual luminosity: 0.000029 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.40
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0054 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.