Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -68°41

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 54, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -68°41, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1208, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 5496, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 427
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h10m22.976s, -67°26'41.55" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 26.5 light-years (8.14 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.775%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.71, 3.08, -24.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 8.52, -14.9, -20.3
Proper motion: 0.718 arcsec/yr (34.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 26.1 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -15.4, -9.93, -33.4

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: late K
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.80
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.24
Visual luminosity: 0.0070 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.54, U-B= +1.17, R-I= +1.08
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.083 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.