Bonner Durchmusterung +35°2439

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 508.2, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +35°2439, Giclas (G) 164-68, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2724, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 65143, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 47
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h20m58.093s, +34°16'44.28" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 52.5 light-years (16.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.7547%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -40.7, -15.0, 29.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.54, 8.72, 51.7
Proper motion: 0.593 arcsec/yr (119.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -23 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 44.1, 2.29, -25.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.62
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.59
Visual luminosity: 0.013 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.44, U-B= +1.20, R-I= +0.85
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.