Cordoba Durchmusterung -62°1444

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1282, Henry Draper (HD) 219482, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -62°1444, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 114948, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 255446, Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) 876, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 8843
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h16m57.664s, -62°0'4.33" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 67.1 light-years (20.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.2195%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.0, -5.88, -59.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.7, -26.2, -53.0
Proper motion: 0.18 arcsec/yr (97.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: -1.8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -15.7, -7.32, -3.48

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: F7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.08
Visual luminosity: 2.03 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.51, U-B= +1.61
Diameter: 1.22 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.42 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.455489 degrees

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