Cordoba Durchmusterung -55°1514

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -55°1514, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 31862, UGPMF 145, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -55°1035, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 2621
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h39m37.75s, -55°36'35.4" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 42.6 light-years (13.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.354%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -4.14, 23.7, -35.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -3.41, -38.9, -17.1
Proper motion: 0.38 arcsec/yr (269.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.88
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.30
Visual luminosity: 0.017 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.31, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.52
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.13 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.