Light-year

A Light-year or lightyear (symbol: ly) is a unit of measurement of length, specifically the distance light travels in vacuum in one year.

• It is an astrographic scale measurement.
• It is a standard Imperial metric.

Description (Specifications)

One light-year (Solomani) is equal to:

1. about 9,460,730,472,580 meters
2. about 63,240 astronomical units
3. about 0.3066 parsecs

One light-year (Imperial) is equal to:

1. about 9,454,449,092,018 meters
2. about 63,200 astronomical units
3. about 0.3064 parsecs

History & Background (Dossier)

The exact length of the light-year depends on the length of the reference year used in the calculation.

• Within the Imperium, an Imperial standard year of 365.00 Imperial standard days is used.
• The light-year is often used to measure distances between stars.
• The preferred unit of measurement for such distances is the parsec.

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopedia
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science