Cordoba Durchmusterung -36°2458

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 218, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -36°2458, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1787, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 27359, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 2648
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 5h47m40.39s, -36°19'42.1" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.9 light-years (15.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.1848%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 2.12, 39.3, -29.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.5, -38.2, -22.6
Proper motion: 0.692 arcsec/yr (96.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: 56 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -17.3, -71.0, 14.7

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.72
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.84
Visual luminosity: 0.010 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.48, U-B= +1.11, R-I= +0.90
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.10 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.