Giclas 187-8

light-years

Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 187-8, Luyten Half-Second (LHS) 3589
Arity: singular
Right Ascension and Declination: 20h48m13s, +26°19'36" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 65.2 light-years (20.0 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 6.367%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 39.2, -43.4, 28.9
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 21.3, 60.4, -12.5
Proper motion: 0.523 arcsec/yr (232.9° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?


Spectral class: DC9
Luminosity Class: wd
Apparent visual magnitude: +15.58
Absolute visual magnitude: +14.07
Visual luminosity: 0.00020 x Sol
Color indices: B-V= +0.95, U-B= +0.40
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.014 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.