Proper Motion - Stars With High Proper Motion

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/ .

Highest proper motion stars
# 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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