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Absolute Photometric Calibration of the Infrared Camera (IRC) aboard AKARI
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| Absolute Calibration of the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope
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| Constellation: | Dragon |
| Right ascension: | 17h58m54.68s |
| Declination: | +67°47'36.9" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 9.17 |
| Proper motion RA: | 2.8 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -10.2 |
| B-T magnitude: | 10.833 |
| V-T magnitude: | 9.308 |
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