Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -73°178

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 16348, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -73°178 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 11852, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -73°110, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 1263
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h32m58.868s, -72°41'15.39" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 73.6 light-years (22.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7734%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 17.2, 13.6, -70.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.0, -50.0, -49.8
Proper motion: 0.238 arcsec/yr (37.8° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.84
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.07
Visual luminosity: 0.13 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.04
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.36 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.