| Publication Date | Original edition 1979
Revised edition 2002 | | Objects Catalogued | 4,470 stars | | Brightest Object Catalogued | Sirius (LHS 219) | | Notes | A catalogue created by Wilhem Jacob Luyten and originally published in 1979, the Luyten Half-Second Catalogue lists more than four thousand stars with proper motions exceeding half a second of arc (that is greater than one 1,800th of a degree). A revised, more precise edition was produced in 2002, cross-referencing the data in the original list with that from the Hipparcos mission. The work extends that of Ross and Wolf, who also prepared catalogues based on proper motion, but each containing considerably fewer stars than the LHS. |
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