Cordoba Durchmusterung -45°12402

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 168060, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -45°12402, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 89855, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 228917, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -45°9234
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h20m11.463s, -45°55'19.98" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 76 light-years (23 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.2449%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 4.6, -53, -54
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 72, -15, -19
Proper motion: 0.153 arcsec/yr (172.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -18 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -22, -10, -4.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.32
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.49
Visual luminosity: 0.6 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.76
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.7 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.