Luyten 88-59

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 145 , Luyten (L) 88-59, Luyten FT (LFT) 158, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 934
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 1h41m36s, -67°32'12" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 41 light-years (13 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 18.5567%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 14, 6.8, -38
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 12, -24, -31
Proper motion: 1.048 arcsec/yr (197.8° from north)
Radial Velocity: 51 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 64, -49, -5.1

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA7
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.88
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.37
Visual luminosity: 0.0004 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.44
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.02 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.