Cordoba Durchmusterung -48°12818

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 739, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -48°12818, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3423, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 93206, Cape Faint Star (CFS) 18398, Smethells (Sm) 26
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h59m7.48s, -48°16'27.7" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 45.3 light-years (13.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.3785%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 7.68, -29.1, -33.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 41.2, -8.24, -16.7
Proper motion: 0.509 arcsec/yr (163.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.13
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.42
Visual luminosity: 0.0059 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.46, R-I= +1.02
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.077 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.