Luyten 362-81

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 915, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1005, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 165, Luyten (L) 362-81, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 9857, Luyten Palomar (LP) 988-88, Bruce Proper Motion (BPM) 45338
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h59m34s, -43°26'6" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 25.4 light-years (7.80 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.7548%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18.5, -0.035, -17.5
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 7.25, -3.90, -24.1
Proper motion: 0.915 arcsec/yr (137.7° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA5
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.05
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.59
Visual luminosity: 0.00032 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.07, U-B= -0.87, R-I= +0.16
Diameter: 0.0102 x Sol
Source for diameter: Apparent Diameters and Absolute Radii of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.018 A.U.s
Angular size of star in sky in CZ: 0.304363 degrees

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