Cordoba Durchmusterung -57°8545

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 855, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -57°8545, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3802, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 110534, Smethells (Sm) 107
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h23m33.357s, -57°13'12.53" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 63.2 light-years (19.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.6975%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.3, -14.0, -53.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 35.8, -17.9, -49.0
Proper motion: 0.694 arcsec/yr (116.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: -20 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -57.9, -33.1, -4.43

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.82
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.38
Visual luminosity: 0.015 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.50, U-B= +1.16, R-I= +0.81
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.12 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.