Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -60°46

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 29, Henry Draper (HD) 3823, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -60°46, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1123, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 3170, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 232143, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 176
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h40m25.705s, -59°27'16.44" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 83.1 light-years (25.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.4063%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 41.6, 7.41, -71.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 25.3, -36.1, -70.4
Proper motion: 0.99 arcsec/yr (62.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: 1.5 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -113, -17.2, -33.8

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.89
Absolute visual magnitude: +3.86
Visual luminosity: 2.48 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.56
Diameter: 1.53 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.57 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.518921 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.