TV Columbae ( TV Col ) is a 13th magnitude Intermediate Polar ( IP ) Cataclysmic Variable ( CV ) , with multiple periods found in the light curves . Past estimates predicted a distance of 400 parsec to greater than 500 parsec . Recently completed Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) Fine Guidance Sensor ( FGS ) interferometric observations allow us to determine the first trigonometric parallax to TV Col . This determination puts the distance of TV Col at 368 ^ { -15 } _ { +17 } parsecs . CD-32 2376 , a 10th magnitude Tycho Catalog star , is a reference star in the TV Col frame . We find a distance of 127.7 ^ { -1 } _ { +1 } parsecs .