Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf 484

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 108-26, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 484
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h44m47s, +2°34'23" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 59.7 light-years (18.3 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.1514%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -11.6, 58.5, 2.68
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -51.6, -30.1, 0.26
Proper motion: 0.436 arcsec/yr (275.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA8
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.68
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.37
Visual luminosity: 0.00016 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.32, U-B= -0.53
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.012 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.