Cordoba Durchmusterung -28°2981

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Henry Draper (HD) 45184, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -28°2981, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 30503, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 171711, Hoffleit Bright Star (HR) 2318
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h24m43.888s, -28°46'48.29" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 71.9 light-years (22.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.3693%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -6.78, 62.6, -34.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37.5, -57.3, -21.8
Proper motion: 0.204 arcsec/yr (233.6° from north)
Radial Velocity: -4.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 10.1, 5.88, -18.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: G0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +6.38
Absolute visual magnitude: +4.66
Visual luminosity: 1.19 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.62
Comfort Zone (visual): 1.09 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.