Luyten Palomar 127-371

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h22m57s, +50°42'36" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 64 light-years (20 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.069%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37, 17, 49
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -36, 11, 52
Proper motion: 0.627 arcsec/yr (214.4° 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: +11.38
Combined visual luminosity: 0.002 x Sol
Observed Separation: 314 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -6.87
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -7.03


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 196-22, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2262, Luyten Palomar (LP) 127-371
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.52
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.06
Visual luminosity: 0.001 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.21
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.04 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 196-23, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2263, Luyten Palomar (LP) 127-372
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h22m58s, +50°42'48" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37, 17, 49
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -36, 11, 52
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.68
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.22
Visual luminosity: 0.001 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.22
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.03 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.