Luyten Palomar 801-9

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 378, Luyten Palomar (LP) 801-9
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h44m41s, -17°29'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 47.3 light-years (14.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.4795%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -33.9, -29.7, -14.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 35.1, -13.9, 28.5
Proper motion: 1.177 arcsec/yr (252.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.48
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.67
Visual luminosity: 0.000047 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.94
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0068 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.