Luyten 24-52

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 820.1, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 142, Luyten (L) 24-52, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 1266, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 8381
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h5m12s, -82°1'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 56.3 light-years (17.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.8131%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 5.66, -5.41, -55.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.3, -36.3, -29.6
Proper motion: 0.37 arcsec/yr (167.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: -57 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -50.5, 14.3, 37.5

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.56
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.37
Visual luminosity: 0.00098 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.25, U-B= -0.60
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.031 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.