Wolf 1346

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 794, Giclas (G) 186-31, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3562, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 101516, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 139, Wolf 1346, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 16005, Luyten FT (LFT) 1554, Catalogue Astrographique (AC) +24°747-102
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 20h34m21.92s, +25°3'49.5" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 48.2 light-years (14.8 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.3157%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.2, -34.1, 20.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18.1, 44.0, -7.80
Proper motion: 0.662 arcsec/yr (214.2° from north)
Radial Velocity: 71 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 69.4, 46.9, -13.1

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA3
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.53
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.68
Visual luminosity: 0.0047 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= -0.07, U-B= -0.87
Diameter: 0.015 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.068 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.117175 degrees

light-years
but not more than light-years away
Data for this star system were most recently updated on 4-April-2001.