Cordoba Durchmusterung -32°5613

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 318, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -32°5613, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 253, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 62
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 8h39m36s, -32°46'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 29.0 light-years (8.90 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 6.0251%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -15.7, 18.7, -15.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -7.69, -27.9, 2.82
Proper motion: 1.709 arcsec/yr (322.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 58 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -84.9, -36.5, 5.38

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.88
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.13
Visual luminosity: 0.0012 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.22, U-B= -0.59, R-I= +0.04
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.035 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.