Luyten 165-2

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 842, Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD) -60°7528, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3741, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 108569, Luyten (L) 165-2, Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -60°7821, Smethells (Sm) 96, New Suspected Variable (NSV) 13984
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h59m34.647s, -59°45'9.67" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 38.7 light-years (11.9 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.0233%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 16.9, -9.78, -33.4
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 23.6, -12.2, -28.2
Proper motion: 0.886 arcsec/yr (96.1° from north)
Radial Velocity: 13.4 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -31.4, -16.3, -37.6

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +9.74
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.37
Visual luminosity: 0.016 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.49, U-B= +1.18, R-I= +0.81
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.13 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.