Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -62°5888

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -62°5888, Smethells (Sm) 15
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h29m24s, -62°47'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 47 light-years (14 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 13.5802%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 2.7, -21, -41
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 38, -20, -17

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.52
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.75
Visual luminosity: 0.03 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.45, R-I= +0.67
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.2 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.