Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf 566

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1547 , Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 566
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 3h22m38s, -1°59'0" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 52.6 light-years (16.1 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 8.8235%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 33.3, 40.7, -1.82
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -36.8, -3.25, -37.4
Proper motion: 0.903 arcsec/yr (163.8° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DZ9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.12
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.08
Visual luminosity: 0.000081 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.80
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0090 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.