Stars With High Proper Motion
The following are the stars with highest proper motion from the Hipparcos catalog.(see List of stars in the Hipparcos Catalogue) It does not include stars such as Teegarden's star which are too faint for that catalog. A more complete list of stellar objects can be made by doing a Criteria query at http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ .
| # | Star | Proper motion | Radial velocity (km/s) |
Parallax (mas) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| μα · cos δ (mas/yr) |
μδ (mas/yr) |
||||
| 1 | Barnard's star | -798.71 | 10337.77 | -106.8 | 549.30 |
| 2 | Kapteyn's star | 6500.34 | -5723.17 | +245.5 | 255.12 |
| 3 | Groombridge 1830 | 4003.69 | -5814.64 | -98.0 | 109.22 |
| 4 | Lacaille 9352 | 6766.63 | 1327.99 | +9.7 | 303.89 |
| 5 | Gliese 1 (CD -37 15492) (GJ 1) | 5633.95 | -2336.69 | +23.6 | 229.32 |
| 6 | HIP 67593 | 2282.15 | 5369.33 | — | 76.20 |
| 7 | 61 Cygni A & B | 4133.05 | 3201.78 | -64.3 | 287.18 |
| 8 | Lalande 21185 | -580.46 | -4769.95 | -85.0 | 392.52 |
| 9 | Epsilon Indi | 3961.41 | -2538.33 | -40.4 | 275.79 |
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