Luyten Palomar 292-67

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 112, Luyten Palomar (LP) 292-67
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h17m48s, +32°49'17" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 40.8 light-years (12.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.4258%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 34.2, 2.66, 22.1
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -15.3, 32.1, -20.0
Proper motion: 1.362 arcsec/yr (129.2° from north)
Radial Velocity: -30 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -25.9, -73.4, -37.0

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M6
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.05
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.56
Visual luminosity: 0.000052 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.98
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0072 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.