Cordoba Durchmusterung -33°16646

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 902.1, Henry Draper (HD) 222335, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -33°16646, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 116763, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 214692, Woolley (Wo) 9833
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h39m51.259s, -32°44'36.71" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 60.9 light-years (18.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5815%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 51.1, -4.50, -33.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 16.4, 2.64, -58.6
Proper motion: 0.329 arcsec/yr (156.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -1.55, -29.5, 6.55

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.18
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.82
Visual luminosity: 0.41 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.81, U-B= +0.42, R-I= +0.28
Diameter: 0.91 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.64 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.759250 degrees

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