Bonner Durchmusterung +63°137

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 52, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +63°137 , Giclas (G) 243-60, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 136 , Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 365
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h7m8.17s, +63°56'28.99" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.5 light-years (14.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.8159%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 20.4, 6.16, 43.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -27.8, 39.7, 1.20
Proper motion: 1.576 arcsec/yr (77.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 2.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -88.7, -59.5, 30.9

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.98
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.12
Visual luminosity: 0.049 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.30
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.22 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.