Luyten Palomar 710-47

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1415 , Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 471, Luyten Palomar (LP) 710-47, USNO 695
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 2h30m15s, -14°24'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 50.5 light-years (15.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.2697%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 38.8, 29.8, -12.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -22.5, -3.68, -45.0
Proper motion: 0.693 arcsec/yr (174.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.76
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.81
Visual luminosity: 0.00010 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.75
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.010 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.