Cape Photographic Durchmusterung -58°5467

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 542, Henry Draper (HD) 125072, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -58°5467, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2892, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 69972, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 241627
Heavy element abundance: 182% of Sol
Source for heavy element abundance: Strobel [Fe/H] Determinations
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h19m4.838s, -59°22'45.04" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 38.60 light-years (11.83 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 0.9263%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -16.15, -11.21, -33.22
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 26.93, -27.64, 0.838
Proper motion: 0.947 arcsec/yr (209.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: -14.9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -38.76, -18.01, -34.90

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: K3
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +6.29
Visual luminosity: 0.266 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.03, U-B= +0.94, R-I= +0.34
Diameter: 1.272 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.516 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 1.314429 degrees

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