Cordoba Durchmusterung -28°302

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 46, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -28°302, Giclas (G) 269-63, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 129, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 4569
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h58m27.881s, -27°51'25.73" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 42.7 light-years (13.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.6364%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 36.6, 9.53, -20.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.12, -1.15, -42.7
Proper motion: 1.305 arcsec/yr (102.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 43 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -56.6, -60.2, -39.9

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.77
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.18
Visual luminosity: 0.0029 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.57, U-B= +1.14, R-I= +1.19
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.054 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.