Cordoba Durchmusterung -36°12214

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 702.1, Henry Draper (HD) 165185, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -36°12214, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 88694, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 209710, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 6748
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h6m23.711s, -36°1'10.68" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 56.6 light-years (17.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.3196%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.28, -45.8, -33.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 56.0, -3.54, -7.81
Proper motion: 0.11 arcsec/yr (81.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: 13.2 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 12.4, 4.69, -8.97

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.90
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.70
Visual luminosity: 1.15 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.62, U-B= +0.07, R-I= +0.20
Diameter: 1.18 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.07 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.585413 degrees

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