Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -48°9312

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 680, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -48°9312, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 86057, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 9166
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 17h35m13.587s, -48°40'51.29" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 31.9 light-years (9.78 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1146%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -2.27, -20.9, -23.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 30.0, -9.52, -5.11
Proper motion: 0.46 arcsec/yr (7.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.13
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.18
Visual luminosity: 0.0074 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.56, U-B= +1.21, R-I= +1.24
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.086 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.