Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -54°365

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 7978, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 232501, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 506, Henry Draper (HD) 10647, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -54°365
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h42m29.395s, -53°44'27.13" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 56.6 light-years (17.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.0983%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 30.2, 14.5, -45.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 7.40, -25.6, -49.9
Proper motion: 0.202 arcsec/yr (119.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 12.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -3.93, -20.1, -4.91

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: F8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.54
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.34
Visual luminosity: 1.59 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.53
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.26 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.