Cordoba Durchmusterung -41°1208

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1066, Henry Draper (HD) 25004, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -41°1208 , Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 18450, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 216565, UGPMF 72
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h56m36.409s, -41°20'36.64" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 57.5 light-years (17.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5628%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 22.1, 37.1, -38.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -15.5, -34.1, -43.7
Proper motion: 0.105 arcsec/yr (28.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.90
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.67
Visual luminosity: 0.075 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.21
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.27 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.