Luyten Two-Tenth 14280

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 721, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 14280
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h30m1s, +5°59'36" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 68.4 light-years (21.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 10%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -53.9, -41.4, 7.14
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 36.3, -2.62, 57.9
Proper motion: 0.322 arcsec/yr (343.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.64
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.03
Visual luminosity: 0.021 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.23, U-B= +1.14, R-I= +0.60
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.15 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.