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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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| Hyades and Sirius supercluster members brighter than magnitude(V) 7.1. I - The first six hours of right ascension
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| Photoelectric UBV photometry for 317 PZT and VZT stars
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| Constellation: | Fuhrmann |
| Right ascension: | 04h58m28.47s |
| Declination: | +37°19'44.5" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 6.736 |
| Distance: | 58.377 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 28.5 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -49.4 |
| B-T magnitude: | 7.118 |
| V-T magnitude: | 6.768 |
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