Cordoba Durchmusterung -69°2083

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1280, Henry Draper (HD) 218572, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -69°2083, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 114416, UGPMF 597, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 9387
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h10m20.52s, -68°50'20.6" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 67.9 light-years (20.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1385%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 23.9, -5.27, -63.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 33.6, -33.0, -48.9
Proper motion: 0.332 arcsec/yr (14.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.75
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.16
Visual luminosity: 0.12 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.02, U-B= +0.76, R-I= +0.42
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.35 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.