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Discovery of a Second Nova Eruption of V2487 Ophiuchi
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| A catalog of far-ultraviolet point sources detected with the fast FAUST Telescope on ATLAS-1
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| Interstellar reddening in the Southern Hemisphere. I - The UVBY beta observations
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| Observations of double stars and new pairs. XIV
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| Constellation: | Ophiuchus |
| Right ascension: | 17h34m09.18s |
| Declination: | -19°10'29.7" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.692 |
| Distance: | 256.41 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 20 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -8.7 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.253 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.739 |
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