Cordoba Durchmusterung -24°12677

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 620, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -24°12677, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3186, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 80268, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 761
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h23m7.662s, -24°42'34.85" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 54.9 light-years (16.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.3328%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.4, -45.4, -22.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 52.1, -6.67, 15.7
Proper motion: 0.712 arcsec/yr (206.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.23
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.10
Visual luminosity: 0.020 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.47, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.75
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.14 A.U.s

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