Giclas white Dwarf 1212

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas white Dwarf (GD) 1212
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h36m16s, -7°58'6" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 52 light-years (16 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 14.8649%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 51, -5.3, -7.2
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 4.7, 22, -47
Proper motion: 0.05 arcsec/yr (140.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.26
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.26
Visual luminosity: 0.001 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.18, U-B= -0.47
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.03 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.