Luyten Palomar 355-64

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h19m27s, +26°58'42" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 72 light-years (22 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 32.8358%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42, 49, 33
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -62, 23, -30
Proper motion: 0.208 arcsec/yr (113.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +9.29
Combined visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Observed Separation: 6178 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude +3.65
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -3.32


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Palomar (LP) 355-64
Spectral class: K7
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +11.03
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.30
Visual luminosity: 0.02 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.43, U-B= +1.34
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.1 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Palomar (LP) 355-65
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h19m48s, +26°58'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 42, 49, 33
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -62, 23, -30
Spectral class: A
Luminosity Class: wd?
Apparent visual magnitude: +18.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +16.27
Visual luminosity: 0.00003 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.005 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.