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| Catalog of Galactic OB Stars
An all-sky catalog of Galactic OB stars has been created by extendingthe Case-Hamburg Galactic plane luminous-stars surveys to include 5500additional objects drawn from the literature. This work brings the totalnumber of known or reasonably suspected OB stars to over 16,000.Companion databases of UBVβ photometry and MK classifications forthese objects include nearly 30,000 and 20,000 entries, respectively.
| New identifications for blue objects towards the Galactic center: post-AGB stars, Be/disk stars and others
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| The calibration of the Stromgren photometric system for A, F and early G supergiants. I - The observational data
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| Constellation: | Scorpion |
| Right ascension: | 17h39m28.84s |
| Declination: | -37°21'52.7" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.45 |
| Distance: | 763.359 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -0.1 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -2.4 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.518 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.539 |
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