Cordoba Durchmusterung -26°828

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 95, Henry Draper (HD) 14412, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -26°828 , Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1387, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 10798, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 167697, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 683
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h18m58.503s, -25°56'44.56" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 41.35 light-years (12.68 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.9045%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 30.55, 21.19, -18.09
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -11.80, -7.960, -38.83
Proper motion: 0.5 arcsec/yr (333.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 7 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -11.28, 27.07, -9.581

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.34
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.83
Visual luminosity: 0.406 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.73
Diameter: 0.763 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.637 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.638147 degrees

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