Cordoba Durchmusterung -72°1570

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1244, Henry Draper (HD) 187456, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -72°1570, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 98106, UGPMF 477, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 7857
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 19h56m16.117s, -72°21'51.61" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 76.2 light-years (23.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.2841%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 11.2, -20.2, -72.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 52.0, -39.5, -39.4
Proper motion: 0.299 arcsec/yr (182.5° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.46
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.61
Visual luminosity: 0.20 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.06, U-B= +0.98, R-I= +0.38
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.44 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.