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The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood. Ages, metallicities, and kinematic properties of 14 000 F and G dwarfs
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| UBVRI photometry of stars useful for checking equipment orientation stability
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| Constellation: | Poissons |
| Right ascension: | 00h06m46.97s |
| Declination: | -04°21'00.1" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.219 |
| Distance: | 110.132 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 59.2 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -88.1 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.871 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.273 |
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