Cordoba Durchmusterung -53°570

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 114.1, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -53°570, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1452, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 13218
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h50m9.742s, -53°8'19.86" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 42.7 light-years (13.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.874%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18.9, 17.3, -34.1
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 0.14, -23.9, -35.3
Proper motion: 0.531 arcsec/yr (348.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.72
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.14
Visual luminosity: 0.0077 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.51, U-B= +1.20, R-I= +0.93
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.088 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.