Luyten Palomar 103-294

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 227-28, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3380, Luyten Palomar (LP) 103-294
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h20m45s, +60°59'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 41.8 light-years (12.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.9878%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 1.83, -20.2, 36.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -0.19, 37.2, 19.0
Proper motion: 0.688 arcsec/yr (172.2° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.11
Visual luminosity: 0.000078 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.97, U-B= +0.98
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0089 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.