Luyten 1138-44

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) +7°3922, Giclas (G) 141-52, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 93248, Luyten (L) 1138-44, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 15574
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 18h59m38.62s, +7°59'14.34" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 84.8 light-years (26.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 5.9629%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.6, -81.1, 11.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 63.6, 55.9, 1.96
Proper motion: 0.408 arcsec/yr (115.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.86
Absolute visual magnitude: +8.79
Visual luminosity: 0.027 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.42, U-B= +1.26, R-I= +0.73
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.16 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.