Luyten 219-8

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD) -50°210, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 3813, Luyten (L) 219-8, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 464, Smethells (Sm) 174, Cape Faint Star (CFS) 223
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h49m1.641s, -50°8'41.84" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 70.4 light-years (21.6 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 4.258%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 44.1, 9.58, -54.1
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 14.8, -22.8, -64.9
Proper motion: 0.323 arcsec/yr (131.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M2
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.76
Absolute visual magnitude: +9.09
Visual luminosity: 0.020 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.43, R-I= +0.75
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.14 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.