Cordoba Durchmusterung -43°1472

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1071, Henry Draper (HD) 29220, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -43°1472, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 21284, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) 216876, UGPMF 85, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 31946
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 4h34m1.26s, -43°31'29.23" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 73.3 light-years (22.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.7652%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 19.5, 49.4, -50.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -20.0, -50.2, -49.4
Proper motion: 0.096 arcsec/yr (143.2° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

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Spectral class: K5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +8.83
Absolute visual magnitude: +7.07
Visual luminosity: 0.13 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.11, U-B= +1.00, R-I= +0.42
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.36 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.