Giclas 164-62

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1170, Giclas (G) 164-62, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 64880, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 44
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h17m58.421s, +36°17'57.62" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 70.5 light-years (21.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.3829%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -53.6, -19.0, 41.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -0.034, 13.2, 69.3
Proper motion: 0.3 arcsec/yr (196.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 23 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 10.9, -23.9, 28.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.29
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.61
Visual luminosity: 0.012 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.41, U-B= +1.14, R-I= +0.83
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.