Bonner Durchmusterung +16°2658

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 552, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +16°2658, Giclas (G) 135-56, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 373, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 70865, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 718
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h29m29.7s, +15°31'57.97" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 46.6 light-years (14.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.1116%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -35.6, -27.2, 12.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 20.1, 3.98, 41.8
Proper motion: 1.711 arcsec/yr (321.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: 7.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -100, 21.7, 54.5

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Spectral class: M2.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.67
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.90
Visual luminosity: 0.0096 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.47, U-B= +1.17, R-I= +0.94
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.098 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.