Luyten 8-61

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten (L) 8-61, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 890, McCook & Sion White Dwarf (WD) 1268-873
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 16h28m48s, -87°19'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 80 light-years (24 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.3265%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -1.4, -3.4, -79
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42, -58, -35
Proper motion: 0.066 arcsec/yr (170.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +14.58
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.64
Visual luminosity: 0.0008 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.22, U-B= -0.63
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.03 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.