Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -63°51

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -63°51, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1094, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 2540, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 248205, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -63°9, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 288, Luyten FT (LFT) 49
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h32m15.339s, -63°5'28.73" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 84.0 light-years (25.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.7534%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 37.6, 5.33, -74.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 29.0, -39.6, -68.1
Proper motion: 0.518 arcsec/yr (101.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.60
Visual luminosity: 0.080 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.35, R-I= +0.63
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.28 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.