Cordoba Durchmusterung -33°9242

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1175, Henry Draper (HD) 118972, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -33°9242, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 66765, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 204725, UGPMF 327, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 5300
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h41m4.162s, -34°27'51.74" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 50.9 light-years (15.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.2483%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -38.0, -17.9, -28.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 32.1, -32.1, 23.0
Proper motion: 0.265 arcsec/yr (130.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K1
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.93
Absolute visual magnitude: +5.97
Visual luminosity: 0.36 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.86, U-B= +0.45, R-I= +0.28
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.60 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.