Cordoba Durchmusterung -68°2331

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1279, Henry Draper (HD) 218511, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -68°2331, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 114361, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 255417, UGPMF 596, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 9379
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h9m40.928s, -67°43'59.11" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 49.2 light-years (15.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.4114%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18.2, -4.06, -45.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 24.3, -23.1, -35.9
Proper motion: 0.387 arcsec/yr (235.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.33
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.44
Visual luminosity: 0.092 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.20, U-B= +1.14, R-I= +0.50
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.30 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.