Cordoba Durchmusterung -60°637

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1056, Henry Draper (HD) 19819, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -60°637 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 14587, UGPMF 49, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 2877
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h8m22.421s, -60°10'20.92" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 70.1 light-years (21.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1652%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 23.7, 25.5, -60.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 5.52, -45.1, -53.4
Proper motion: 0.242 arcsec/yr (54.1° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.31
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.65
Visual luminosity: 0.076 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.22
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.28 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.