Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -60°167

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 81.2, Henry Draper (HD) 12058, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -60°167 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 9044, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 248469, UGPMF 24, Woolley (Wo) 9064
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h56m32.462s, -60°13'36.15" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 64.3 light-years (19.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5134%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.9, 15.5, -55.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 11.5, -34.8, -52.8
Proper motion: 0.473 arcsec/yr (66.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: 0.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -41.1, -16.2, 1.20

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.61
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.14
Visual luminosity: 0.12 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.16
Diameter: 0.74 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.35 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.132383 degrees

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