Cordoba Durchmusterung -48°176

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1021, Henry Draper (HD) 4391, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -48°176, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 3583, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 215232, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 209
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h45m45.57s, -47°33'6.8" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.7 light-years (14.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.0791%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 32.2, 6.52, -36.0
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.53, -13.8, -45.8
Proper motion: 0.202 arcsec/yr (65.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: -11.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -16.2, 1.01, 8.46

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G5
Luminosity Class: IV
Apparent visual magnitude: +5.79
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.92
Visual luminosity: 0.94 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.64
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.97 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.