Cordoba Durchmusterung -28°1839

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 2037, Henry Draper (HD) 31560, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -28°1839, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 22907, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 169892, UGPMF 99, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 2124
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 4h55m41.889s, -28°33'50.35" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 58.6 light-years (18.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.5909%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 14.2, 49.4, -28.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -30.6, -36.1, -34.6
Proper motion: 0.285 arcsec/yr (137.9° from north)
Radial Velocity: 12.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 5.83, -26.4, 1.93

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K3-4
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.13
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.86
Visual luminosity: 0.16 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.07, U-B= +0.96, R-I= +0.39
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.40 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.