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Radial velocities. Measurements of 2800 B2-F5 stars for HIPPARCOS
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| Image quality, tip-tilt correction, and shift-and-add infrared imaging
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| Constellation: | Ophiuchus |
| Right ascension: | 18h03m26.35s |
| Declination: | +02°30'52.5" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.488 |
| Distance: | 255.102 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 0.4 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -11 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.59 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.497 |
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