Luyten 796-10

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 270-98, Luyten (L) 796-10, Luyten Two-Tenth (LTT) 524, Luyten Palomar (LP) 706-65
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 0h53m20s, -11°44'6" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 76 light-years (23 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 14%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 72, 17, -15
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -12, 16, -73
Proper motion: 0.451 arcsec/yr (348.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA7
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.25
Absolute visual magnitude: +13.42
Visual luminosity: 0.0004 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.35
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.02 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.