Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°11940

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 565, Henry Draper (HD) 130992, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°11940, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 383, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 72688, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 182935, UGPMF 362
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h51m40.472s, -24°18'14.48" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 55.3 light-years (17.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7497%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -36.9, -34.3, -22.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 43.5, -19.7, 28.0
Proper motion: 1.033 arcsec/yr (245.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: -65.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -90.3, -49.5, -23.8

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.82
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.67
Visual luminosity: 0.19 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.00, U-B= +0.88, R-I= +0.36
Diameter: 0.76 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.43 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.938440 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.