Cordoba Durchmusterung -35°4406

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 69565, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -35°4406, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 40506, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 199018, Southern Reference System (SRS) 8278
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 8h16m12.56s, -35°52'56.2" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 46 light-years (14 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 14.4578%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -21, 31, -27
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -12, -44, -0.1
Proper motion: 0.028 arcsec/yr (13.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Component A:
Spectral class: G8-K0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +7.20
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.46
Visual luminosity: 0.2 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.94
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.5 A.U.s


Component B:
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.26
Visual luminosity: 0.007 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.08 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.