Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -53°42

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 13, Henry Draper (HD) 1273, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -53°42, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 1349, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 231987
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h16m53.922s, -52°39'4.43" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 75.1 light-years (23.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.6658%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 45.4, 3.35, -59.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 22.9, -23.6, -67.5
Proper motion: 0.361 arcsec/yr (61.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -14.3 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -41.8, 3.34, 0.57

What do all these fields mean?


NOTE: This star is actually a close-orbiting binary pair. The data below are for both sub-components of the pair combined.
Spectral class: G2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.84
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.03
Visual luminosity: 0.85 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.64
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.92 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.