Luyten 879-14

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 194, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 41, Luyten (L) 879-14, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 2049, Luyten Palomar (LP) 655-42
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 4h35m24s, -8°53'53" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 31.0 light-years (9.51 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 2.4141%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 11.1, 28.6, -4.80
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -23.4, -11.0, -17.2
Proper motion: 1.52 arcsec/yr (171.2° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DQ7
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +13.77
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.88
Visual luminosity: 0.00024 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.33, U-B= -0.72
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.