Cordoba Durchmusterung -27°9225

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 510, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -27°9225, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 6, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 65520, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 6236
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h25m48.86s, -28°22'26" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 53.0 light-years (16.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.5899%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -43.4, -17.1, -25.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 30.0, -32.5, 29.3
Proper motion: 0.471 arcsec/yr (257.4° from north)
Radial Velocity: -14 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -33.9, -16.7, -9.21

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2.5
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.04
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.98
Visual luminosity: 0.0089 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.53, U-B= +1.16, R-I= +1.15
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.094 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.