Luyten Palomar 684-17

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3149, Luyten Palomar (LP) 684-17
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h1m40s, -6°7'54" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 54.0 light-years (16.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 6.7901%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -26.5, -46.7, -5.77
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 45.3, 3.68, 29.1
Proper motion: 0.854 arcsec/yr (184.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M4.5-5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.51
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.42
Visual luminosity: 0.00015 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.89
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.012 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.