Vyssotsky McCormick 150

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 150
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h59m54s, +13°55'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 59 light-years (18 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 17.9104%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -50, -29, 14
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 22, -1.0, 55
Proper motion: 0.14 arcsec/yr (131.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -11 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 7.2, -0.2, -15

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.35
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.47, R-I= +0.80
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.1 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.