Luyten 1750-12

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 192-39, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1864, Luyten (L) 1750-12, Luyten Palomar (LP) 121-41, USNO 706
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h39m54s, +51°12'5" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 62.6 light-years (19.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.6241%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -6.79, 38.6, 48.8
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -56.8, 15.6, 21.1
Proper motion: 0.922 arcsec/yr (173.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined spectrum: M3.5 V-VI
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +10.92
Combined visual luminosity: 0.0037 x Sol
Observed Separation: 34.5 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -10.40
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -12.86


Component A:
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.44
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.02
Visual luminosity: 0.0034 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.058 A.U.s


Component B:
Apparent visual magnitude: +14.90
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.48
Visual luminosity: 0.00035 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.019 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.