Light-hour conversions
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About light-hour
The light-hour, or light hour, is an astronomical unit of distance defined as the distance that light travels in free space (or vacuum) in one hour.
The light-hour is equal to 1.079252849 × 1012 meters (1 light-hour = 1.079252849 × 1012 m), the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The light-hour is also equal to 1.079 × 109 kilometers (km) (an SI unit of length), or approximately 6.706 × 108 miles (mi) or 3.54086 × 1012 feet (ft), which are US customary / Imperial units of length.
The light-hour along with light-second, light-minute and light-day are used in popular science publications. One light-hour is equal to 3,600 light-seconds, or 60 light-minutes, or about 0.041667 light-days or 1.1408 × 10-4 light-years.
Plural: light-hours
Light-hour conversions: a compehensive list with conversions from light-hours to other (metric, imperial, or customary) length and distance measurement units is shown below.
- light-hour to angstrom
- light-hour to astronomical unit
- light-hour to Bohr radius
- light-hour to cable (International)
- light-hour to cable (UK)
- light-hour to cable (US)
- light-hour to centimeter
- light-hour to chain
- light-hour to cubit
- light-hour to decameter
- light-hour to decimeter
- light-hour to Earth radius
- light-hour to Earth-Moon distance
- light-hour to Earth-Sun distance
- light-hour to fathom
- light-hour to femtometer
- light-hour to fermi
- light-hour to foot
- light-hour to furlong
- light-hour to hectometer
- light-hour to inch
- light-hour to kilometer
- light-hour to league
- light-hour to light-day
- light-hour to light-minute
- light-hour to light-second
- light-hour to light-year
- light-hour to meter
- light-hour to micrometer
- light-hour to micron
- light-hour to mil
- light-hour to mile
- light-hour to millimeter
- light-hour to nanometer
- light-hour to nautical league
- light-hour to nautical mile
- light-hour to parsec
- light-hour to picometer
- light-hour to Plank length
- light-hour to quarter
- light-hour to rod
- light-hour to yard