Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°2363

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 186, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°2363, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 113
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h3m21.924s, -23°15'1.16" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 65 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.5436%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 15, 58, -26
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -39, -38, -35
Proper motion: 0.327 arcsec/yr (64.3° from north)
Radial Velocity: 110.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -81, -73, -34

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.28
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.78
Visual luminosity: 0.07 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.28, U-B= +1.23, R-I= +0.63
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.3 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.