Luyten 968-22

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 381, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 2230, Vyssotsky McCormick (McC) 568, Luyten (L) 968-22, Luyten Palomar (LP) 609-71
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 10h9m31s, -2°25'48" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 27.8 light-years (8.53 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 7.1259%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -24.6, 12.9, -1.18
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -9.02, -18.8, 18.4
Proper motion: 0.829 arcsec/yr (142.0° from north)
Radial Velocity: 40 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: 16.8, -42.4, 25.3

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: M0
Luminosity Class: V
Apparent visual magnitude: +10.63
Absolute visual magnitude: +10.98
Visual luminosity: 0.0035 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +1.57, U-B= +1.20, R-I= +1.00
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.060 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.