Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°13396

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 158233, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°13396, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 85561, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 185446, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -23°6597, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 6946
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h29m6.538s, -23°50'10.25" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 59.3 light-years (18.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.9624%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -7.29, -53.7, -24.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 59.0, 2.77, 5.42
Proper motion: 0.31 arcsec/yr (258.3° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.61
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.31
Visual luminosity: 0.041 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.29, R-I= +0.55
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.20 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.