Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -68°3597

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 3, Henry Draper (HD) 55, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -68°3597, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1015 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 436, UGPMF 1
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h5m17.68s, -67°49'57.59" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 52.2 light-years (16.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.2954%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 19.7, 0.46, -48.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.7, -26.5, -39.4
Proper motion: 0.582 arcsec/yr (190.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 41 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 35.6, -48.6, -2.08

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.49
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.47
Visual luminosity: 0.090 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.06
Diameter: 0.7 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.30 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.245898 degrees

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