McCook & Sion White Dwarf 1424+240

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     McCook & Sion White Dwarf (WD) 1424+240
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 14h24m44s, +24°1'18" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 56.2 light-years (17.2 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 9.375%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: -41.5, -30.3, 22.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 18.2, 10.3, 52.2

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC8
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.41
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.23
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.