Cordoba Durchmusterung -24°10541

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1164, Henry Draper (HD) 111261, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -24°10541, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 62472, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 181110, UGPMF 305
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 12h48m10.73s, -24°48'23.6" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 64.8 light-years (19.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.9626%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -57.6, -12.3, -27.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.7, -43.1, 39.7
Proper motion: 0.35 arcsec/yr (299.1° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +7.08
Combined visual luminosity: 0.13 x Sol
Observed Separation: 358 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -10.26
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -11.40


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 4898
Spectral class: K4-5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.90
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.41
Visual luminosity: 0.095 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.12, U-B= +0.98, R-I= +0.47
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.31 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 4899
Right Ascension and Declination: 12h45m31s, -24°32'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -57.8, -11.6, -26.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.1, -43.3, 40.0
Proper motion: 0.368 arcsec/yr (295.2° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese
Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.04
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.55
Visual luminosity: 0.033 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.38, U-B= +1.12, R-I= +0.61
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.18 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.