Wolf 46

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 49, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +61°195 , Giclas (G) 243-52, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1179 , Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 2, Wolf 46, Luyten FT (LFT) 94
Arity: possible spectroscopic binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h2m38.773s, +62°20'41.84" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 29.0 light-years (8.88 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 8.1566%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 12.9, 3.63, 25.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16.4, 23.8, -0.11
Proper motion: 0.686 arcsec/yr (84.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: -5.6 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -20.3, -20.8, 4.40

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.56
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.82
Visual luminosity: 0.010 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.50
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.10 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.