Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -49°11759

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -49°11759, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 116491, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -49°14193, Cape Faint Star (CFS) 20397, Smethells (Sm) 139, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 45047
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h36m18.25s, -48°35'17.11" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 77.4 light-years (23.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.8128%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 50.9, -5.29, -58.1
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 29.3, -15.8, -69.9
Proper motion: 0.142 arcsec/yr (259.9° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.09
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.21
Visual luminosity: 0.045 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.37, R-I= +0.64
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.21 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.