Luyten Palomar 316-604

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h42m6s, +32°40'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 74 light-years (23 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 16.9811%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -59, 21, 40
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -34, -8.6, 66
Proper motion: 0.213 arcsec/yr (277.0° 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: +11.60
Combined visual luminosity: 0.002 x Sol
Observed Separation: 909 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -3.06
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -5.01


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Palomar (LP) 316-604
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.55
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.77
Visual luminosity: 0.002 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.17
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.04 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Palomar (LP) 316-605
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h42m8s, +32°40'12" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -59, 21, 40
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -34, -8.6, 66
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.50
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.72
Visual luminosity: 0.0003 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.02 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.