Cordoba Durchmusterung -61°6802

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1283, Henry Draper (HD) 219764, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -61°6802, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 115123, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 255457, UGPMF 605
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h19m5.468s, -60°31'14.17" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.8 light-years (19.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.2017%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 30.4, -5.48, -54.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 29.2, -23.2, -50.5
Proper motion: 0.087 arcsec/yr (247.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.95
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.53
Visual luminosity: 0.085 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.15, U-B= +1.05, R-I= +0.48
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.29 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.