Luyten 1363-3

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 836.5, Giclas (G) 126-27, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3703, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 148, Luyten (L) 1363-3, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 16348, Luyten FT (LFT) 1655, Luyten Palomar (LP) 458-64
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h40m22s, +20°46'42" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 41.0 light-years (12.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.1324%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 31.4, -21.9, 14.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 9.99, 36.2, -16.4
Proper motion: 0.677 arcsec/yr (200.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DQ6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.24
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.74
Visual luminosity: 0.00070 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.17, U-B= -0.71
Diameter: 0.0166 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.026 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.335673 degrees

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