Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf 485

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 1889, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 485, Luyten Palomar (LP) 308-10
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 6h57m36s, +32°2'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 60.9 light-years (18.7 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 1.6514%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -12.8, 50.0, 32.3
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -58.3, -4.79, 16.6
Proper motion: 0.684 arcsec/yr (150.6° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

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Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.57
Absolute visual magnitude: +15.22
Visual luminosity: 0.000071 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.96, U-B= +0.42
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.0084 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.