Bonner Durchmusterung -1°2892

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 536, Henry Draper (HD) 122303, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -1°2892, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2842, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 68469, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 705
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h1m3.239s, -2°39'17.5" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 33.2 light-years (10.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.6121%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -28.6, -16.7, -1.54
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 17.3, -7.73, 27.3
Proper motion: 0.994 arcsec/yr (307.9° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.71
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.67
Visual luminosity: 0.012 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.46, U-B= +1.17, R-I= +0.86
Diameter: 0.55 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.11 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 2.697766 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.