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| The Kreinin-Murri Method for Absolute Determination of Equatorial-Star Declinations.
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| UBV photoelectric photometry in four southern Milky Way fields
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| Constellation: | Monoceros |
| Right ascension: | 07h01m14.95s |
| Declination: | +00°00'37.9" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 7.562 |
| Distance: | 73.099 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -60.9 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 10.4 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.077 |
| V-T magnitude: | 7.605 |
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