Cordoba Durchmusterung -68°2223

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1262, Henry Draper (HD) 203244, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -68°2223, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 105712, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 254993, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 8497
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h24m40.674s, -68°13'41.19" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 66.8 light-years (20.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.6308%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 19.3, -15.5, -62.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42.2, -29.7, -42.3
Proper motion: 0.221 arcsec/yr (43.2° from north)
Radial Velocity: 11.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 1.06, 8.26, -22.9

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.97
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.42
Visual luminosity: 0.59 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.73, U-B= +1.79
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.77 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.