McCook & Sion White Dwarf 1246+586

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     McCook & Sion White Dwarf (WD) 1246+586
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 12h46m5s, +58°36'47" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 60.4 light-years (18.5 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 10%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -30.8, -6.28, 51.6
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -17.4, 26.0, 51.7

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC8
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.56
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.22
Visual luminosity: 0.00018 x Sol
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.013 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.