Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -48°376

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 146, Henry Draper (HD) 22496, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -48°376 , Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1563 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 16711, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 216392, UGPMF 61, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 1203
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h35m0.928s, -48°25'8.74" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 43.6 light-years (13.4 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.0966%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 17.1, 23.3, -32.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -5.74, -26.3, -34.2
Proper motion: 0.504 arcsec/yr (51.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 19.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -31.6, -19.5, -4.49

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.59
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.96
Visual luminosity: 0.057 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.31
Diameter: 0.68 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.24 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.517074 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.