Gamma Pavonis

light-years
Proper names: Gamma Pavonis
Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 827, Henry Draper (HD) 203608, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -65°3918, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3674, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 105858, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 254999, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 805, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 8181, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 13689
Age: 9100 million years
Source for age: B. Edvardsson et al., "Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disc", A&AP 275
Heavy element abundance: 19% of Sol
Standard error in heavy element abundance: 10%
Source for heavy element abundance: Strobel [Fe/H] Determinations
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h26m26.596s, -65°21'58.43" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 30.06 light-years (9.217 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.5408%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.821, -7.781, -27.33
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 19.34, -12.00, -19.63
Proper motion: 0.805 arcsec/yr (6.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: -29.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -13.40, 43.53, 5.204

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Spectral class: F8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +4.21
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.39
Visual luminosity: 1.526 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.49, U-B= -0.12, R-I= +0.20
Diameter: 1.000 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.235 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.431758 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 12-May-2001.