Cordoba Durchmusterung -23°3577

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 43162, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -23°3577, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 29568, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 171428, Southern Reference System (SRS) 6921, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 2225
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h13m45.29s, -23°51'42.96" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 54.5 light-years (16.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.2366%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -2.99, 49.7, -22.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -32.5, -40.3, -16.9
Proper motion: 0.125 arcsec/yr (336.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 22.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -21.0, -10.3, -7.18

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.38
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.26
Visual luminosity: 0.68 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.72
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.83 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.