Luyten Palomar 930-70

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h55m56s, -32°42'18" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 78 light-years (24 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 10.6383%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 56, -34, -42
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 46, 12, -62
Proper motion: 0.536 arcsec/yr (226.8° 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: +12.44
Combined visual luminosity: 0.0009 x Sol
Observed Separation: 2667 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -0.53
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -1.68


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3739, Luyten Palomar (LP) 930-70
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +14.65
Absolute visual magnitude: +12.77
Visual luminosity: 0.0007 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.25
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.03 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3738, Luyten Palomar (LP) 930-69
Right Ascension and Declination: 21h55m55s, -32°40'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 56, -34, -42
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 46, 12, -62
Spectral class: M
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.80
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.92
Visual luminosity: 0.0002 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.50
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.