Bonner Durchmusterung +36°2393

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 519, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +36°2393, Giclas (G) 165-19, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 66459, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 63647, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 49
Arity: possible spectroscopic binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h37m28.754s, +35°43'4.22" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 35.6 light-years (10.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.3233%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -26.3, -11.9, 20.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 2.13, 7.86, 34.6
Proper motion: 0.315 arcsec/yr (101.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -15 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 13.3, 4.13, -17.2

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.06
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.88
Visual luminosity: 0.024 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, U-B= +1.16, R-I= +0.66
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.16 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.