Luyten 1003-16

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 151, Luyten (L) 1003-16, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 8747
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h51m32s, -1°31'11" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 64 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 10.5263%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 54, -34, -1.7
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27, 41, -41
Proper motion: 0.26 arcsec/yr (177.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 113 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 58, 53, -85

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA6
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +14.41
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.95
Visual luminosity: 0.0006 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.26, U-B= -0.51
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.