Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°693

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 79, Henry Draper (HD) 11507, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°693 , Giclas (G) 272-114, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1307 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 8768, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 167374, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 4
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h52m49.189s, -22°26'6.06" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 36.2 light-years (11.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.4966%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 29.5, 15.8, -13.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -9.10, -2.88, -34.9
Proper motion: 0.832 arcsec/yr (89.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: 14.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -36.0, -28.4, -2.89

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5-M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.89
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.67
Visual luminosity: 0.030 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.41
Diameter: 0.73 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.17 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 2.246417 degrees

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