Cordoba Durchmusterung -57°1079

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1075, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -57°1079, UGPMF 106, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -57°737, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 18005
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h5m47.463s, -57°33'14.3" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 40 light-years (12 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.4948%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 5.1, 21, -34
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -2.2, -32, -24
Proper motion: 0.119 arcsec/yr (346.4° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.02
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.56
Visual luminosity: 0.03 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.40, U-B= +1.20, R-I= +0.65
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.2 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.