View source for GJ 1062

{{Starbox begin 
| name = Gliese 1062
}}
{{Starbox observe 
| epoch = [[J2000.0]]
| constell = [[Chamaeleon (constellation)|Chamaeleon]]
| ra = {{RA|03|38|15.580}}<ref name="SIMBAD">{{cite simbad | title=GJ 1062 | accessdate=4 December 2016}}</ref>
| dec = {{DEC|-11|29|10.29}}<ref name="SIMBAD"/>
| appmag_v = +13.02
}}
{{Starbox character 
| class = M2.5VI<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Gizis, John E. |date=1997|title=M-Subdwarfs: Spectroscopic Classification and the Metallicity Scale |journal=Astronomical Journal|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1997AJ....113..806G|bibcode=1997AJ....113..806G|doi=10.1086/118302|arxiv=astro-ph/9611222}}</ref>
| u-b = +1.605<ref name=UBV>{{cite journal
    | author1=Mermilliod, J.-C.
    | title=Compilation of Eggen's UBV data, transformed to UBV (unpublished)
    | url = http://cdsads.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1986EgUBV........0M&db_key=AST&nosetcookie=1
    | date=1986
    | bibcode= 1986EgUBV........0M }}</ref>
| b-v = +1.385<ref name=UBV />
}}
{{Starbox astrometry 
| radial_v=-104.3<ref name="SIMBAD" />  
| prop_mo_ra=1461<ref name="SIMBAD" />  
| prop_mo_dec=-2699<ref name="SIMBAD" />  
| parallax = 33
| p_error = 12
| parallax_footnote = <ref>{{cite journal|author1=Jenkins, Louise F. |date=1952|title=General catalogue of trigonometric stellar parallaxes |journal=New Haven, Yale University Observatory|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1952GCTP..C......0J|bibcode=1952gcsr.book.....J}}</ref>
}}
{{Starbox detail
| radius = 0.411<ref name=dM1>{{cite journal|author1=Houdebine, E. R. |date=2010|title=Observation and modelling of main-sequence star chromospheres - XIV. Rotation of dM1 stars |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=2010MNRAS.407.1657H|bibcode=2010MNRAS.407.1657H|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16827.x}}</ref>
}}
{{Starbox catalog 
| names = [[Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars|Gliese]] 1062, [[Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue|LTT]] 1717, Ross 578, [[2MASS]] J03381558-1129102
}}
{{Starbox reference
| Simbad = LHS 20
}}
{{Starbox end}}
'''Gliese 1062''' is a [[red dwarf]] [[star]] of class M2 in the [[constellation]] [[Eridanus (constellation)|Eridanus]].<ref>University of Heidelberg [http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/datenbanken/aricns/cnspages/4c02025.htm ARICNS ARI Data Base for Nearby Stars] accessdate = 31 July 2012</ref>
<ref>Michael E.Bakich [https://books.google.com/books?id=tLMXiFhTnRYC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=Ross+578++++star&source=bl&ots=GRgjGCKVcV&sig=V3YOK1fGBet6vxyIg4vQe6xyEqI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eJgXUOCdEciciQf68oCwCA&sqi=2&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Ross%20578%20%20%20%20star&f=false   The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations Cambridge University Press page=95] accessdate = 31 July 2012.</ref>
The star has a total [[proper motion]] of 3.033 [[Minute of arc#Astronomy|"]]/[[year|yr]], making it the 25th fastest-moving star in terms of angular position as seen from Earth, and its [[radial velocity]] is -18 [[kilometres per second|km/s]]. At a [[Distance measures (cosmology)|distance]] of 16.03 [[parsec]]s and with an [[absolute magnitude]] of 13.1, this [[star]] has an [[apparent magnitude]] of 14.6 when [[Astronomical observation|viewed]] from [[Earth]].<ref>University of Tennessee Department of Physics and Astronomy [http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/motion/table.html Table:Proper Motion: Stars with very large proper motion.] accessdate = 31 July 2012</ref><ref>Martin V. Zombeck Handbook of Space Astronomy And Astrophysics Cambridge University Press. 2007 page 86.</ref>

The star is also known as [[Luyten Half-Second catalogue|LHS]] 20 and [[Frank Elmore Ross|Ross]] 578.

== References ==
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{{Stars of Eridanus}}

[[Category:M-type main-sequence stars]]
[[Category:Eridanus (constellation)]]
[[Category:Gliese and GJ objects|1062]]
[[Category:2MASS objects]]


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