Cordoba Durchmusterung -38°1264

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 152, Henry Draper (HD) 23484, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -38°1264, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 17439, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 194491
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h44m9.216s, -38°16'54.32" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 52.9 light-years (16.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.0754%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 23.2, 34.5, -32.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -15.8, -28.5, -41.7
Proper motion: 0.361 arcsec/yr (35.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 32 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -35.7, -16.2, -16.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.99
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.94
Visual luminosity: 0.37 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.88
Diameter: 0.84 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.60 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.740457 degrees

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