Luyten 1576-43

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 210-36, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 261, Luyten (L) 1576-43, Luyten Palomar (LP) 284-13, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 16093
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 20h47m10s, +37°16'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 59.3 light-years (18.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.8361%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.4, -35.2, 35.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 11.2, 58.1, -4.12
Proper motion: 0.229 arcsec/yr (48.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 71 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -5.76, 73.0, -7.93

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA4
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.93
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.63
Visual luminosity: 0.0019 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.14, U-B= -0.67
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.044 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.