Luyten Palomar 914-54

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3003, Luyten Palomar (LP) 914-54
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h53m42s, -27°57'6" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 20.3 light-years (6.21 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.5928%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -13.0, -12.3, -9.50
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 16.2, -7.93, 9.22
Proper motion: 0.965 arcsec/yr (210.1° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M8
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +17.05
Absolute visual magnitude: +18.08
Visual luminosity: 0.0000051 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.34
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0023 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.