Catalogue Astrographique +16°777-164

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Woolley (Wo) 9188, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 467, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +16°777-164
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h39m7s, +15°18'48" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 69 light-years (21 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.963%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 6.1, 67, 18
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -67, -13, -9.4
Proper motion: 0.089 arcsec/yr (120.3° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.61
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.97
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.46, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.71
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.