Luyten Palomar 441-33

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h54m11s, +18°6'36" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 54 light-years (17 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 22.0779%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37, -36, 17
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 25, 10, 47
Proper motion: 0.993 arcsec/yr (299.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: 8 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -62, -16, 46

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +14.33
Combined visual luminosity: 0.0002 x Sol
Observed Separation: 150 A.U.s
Source for orbit data: Gliese
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -3.20
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -6.30


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3001, Luyten Palomar (LP) 441-33
Spectral class: M5
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.50
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.39
Visual luminosity: 0.0002 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.01 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3002, Luyten Palomar (LP) 441-34
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h54m12s, +18°6'48" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -37, -36, 17
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 25, 10, 47
Proper motion: 0.993 arcsec/yr (299.5° from north)
Radial Velocity: 9 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -61, -16, 47
Spectral class: M7
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +18.60
Absolute visual magnitude: +17.49
Visual luminosity: 0.000009 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.003 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.