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Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample
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| Hipparcos astrometry for 257 stars using Tycho-2 data
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| Constellation: | Βωμός |
| Right ascension: | 16h54m32.54s |
| Declination: | -62°24'14.2" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 11.59 |
| Distance: | 4.926 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -2.5 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -14.6 |
| B-T magnitude: | 13.227 |
| V-T magnitude: | 11.726 |
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