We present a trigonometric parallax for the nearby star SCR1845–6357 , an extremely red high proper motion object discovered by Hambly et al .
( 4 ) and identified via accurate photoelectric photometry and spectroscopy to be an M8.5 dwarf with a photometric parallax of 4.6 \pm 0.8 pc by Henry et al .
( 5 ) .
Using methods similar to those described in Deacon & Hambly ( 1 ) we have derived a full astrometric solution from SuperCOSMOS scans of eight survey and non–survey Schmidt photographs held in the United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope Unit plate library .
We calculate the trigonometric parallax to be \pi = 282 \pm 23 mas yielding a distance of 3.5 \pm 0.3 pc which implies an absolute K _ { s } magnitude of 10.79 .
This distance calculation places SCR1845–6357 as the 16th closest stellar system to the Sun .