Cordoba Durchmusterung -31°17179

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1246, Henry Draper (HD) 188474, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -31°17179, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 98130, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 211673, UGPMF 634, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 7876
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 19h56m37.079s, -31°20'7.19" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.6 light-years (19.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1408%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 26.0, -46.7, -32.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 54.7, 9.63, -28.8
Proper motion: 0.418 arcsec/yr (86.8° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.42
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.00
Visual luminosity: 0.14 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.98
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.37 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.