Luyten 788-34

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3799, Luyten (L) 788-34, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 9001, Luyten Palomar (LP) 820-12
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 22h20m23s, -17°51'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 24.3 light-years (7.46 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.0086%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.0, -9.75, -7.46
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 10.7, 9.19, -19.8
Proper motion: 0.778 arcsec/yr (158.3° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M4.5
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.25
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.89
Visual luminosity: 0.00024 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.84, R-I= +1.42
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.016 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.