Luyten Palomar 704-15

light-years

Arity: binary
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h54m46s, -13°15'30" (epoch 1950.0)
Distance from Sol: 58 light-years (18 parsecs)
Standard error in distance: 12.5%
Source for distance: Gliese
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 57, -1.3, -13
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 3.8, 19, -55
Proper motion: 0.193 arcsec/yr (84.0° from north)
Source for proper motion: Gliese

What do all these fields mean?

Data for A and B's orbit around one other:
Combined absolute visual magnitude: +10.94
Combined visual luminosity: 0.004 x Sol
Observed Separation: 357 A.U.s
As seen from A:
     B would appear as magnitude -7.09
As seen from B:
     A would appear as magnitude -7.14


Component A:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 273-186, Luyten Palomar (LP) 704-15
Spectral class: M4
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.93
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.67
Visual luminosity: 0.002 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.23
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.04 A.U.s


Component B:
Catalog numbers:
     Giclas (G) 273-185, Luyten Palomar (LP) 704-14
Right Ascension and Declination: 23h54m45s, -13°15'24" (epoch 1950.0)
Celestial (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 57, -1.3, -13
Galactic (X,Y,Z) coordinates in ly: 3.8, 19, -55
Spectral class: M4
Luminosity Class: V-VI
Apparent visual magnitude: +12.98
Absolute visual magnitude: +11.72
Visual luminosity: 0.002 x Sol
Color indices: R-I= +1.11
Comfort Zone (visual): 0.04 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.