Bonner Durchmusterung +43°2796

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 694, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +43°2796, Giclas (G) 204-27, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3321, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 86776, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 171
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h43m55.981s, +43°22'42.73" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 30.9 light-years (9.49 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.0794%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.58, -22.4, 21.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.41, 25.2, 15.4
Proper motion: 0.636 arcsec/yr (179.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -14.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 22.8, -18.9, -12.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.49
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.61
Visual luminosity: 0.0050 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.53, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +1.02
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.071 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.