Wolf 485A

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Gliese (Gl) 515, Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) -7°3632, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 354, Hipparcos Input Catalog (HIC) 65877, Eggen/Greenstein white dwarf (EG) 99, Wolf 485A, Luyten FT (LFT) 1014
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 13h30m13.651s, -8°34'28.75" (epoch 2000.0)
Distance from Sol: 58.8 light-years (18.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 6.3607%
Source for distance: Hipparcos
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -53.7, -22.3, -8.76
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 27.3, -22.9, 46.7
Proper motion: 1.188 arcsec/yr (247.7° from north)
Radial Velocity: 37 km/sec
Source for proper motion and radial velocity: Gliese
Galactic (U,V,W) velocity components in km/s: -39.9, -98.0, 21.8

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DA5
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.31
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.03
Visual luminosity: 0.0034 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.08, U-B= -0.61
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.058 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.