Gliese & Jahreiss 1102

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese & Jahreiss (GJ) 1102
Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h47m33s, +7°20'41" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 55.7 light-years (17.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 3.3003%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -25.0, 49.2, 7.12
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -44.7, -29.2, 15.7
Proper motion: 1.778 arcsec/yr (173.2° 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: +14.91
Combined visual luminosity: 0.000094 x Sol
Observed Separation: 324 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -3.20
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -3.49


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 240, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 427, Luyten Palomar (LP) 543-33
Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.69
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.53
Visual luminosity: 0.000053 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.10
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0073 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 239, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 426, Luyten Palomar (LP) 543-32
Right Ascension and Declination: 7h47m32s, +7°20'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -25.0, 49.2, 7.12
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -44.7, -29.2, 15.7
Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.98
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.82
Visual luminosity: 0.000041 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.30
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0064 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.