Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf 436

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 256-7, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 436, Luyten Palomar (LP) 7-226, Luyten Palomar (LP) 8-46
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h9m59s, +85°18'36" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 60 light-years (18 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 14.5768%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -4.7, -1.5, 60
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -27, 43, 32
Proper motion: 0.331 arcsec/yr (137.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +16.00
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.68
Visual luminosity: 0.0001 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.78, U-B= +0.14
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.01 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.