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Effective temperature scale and bolometric corrections from 2MASS photometry
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| UBV photometry of Be stars at Hvar: 1972--1990
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| BVRIJHK Photometry of Cepheid Variables
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| Reliable photometric reductions to the standard UBV (or uvby) system and accurate UBV magnitudes of bright standard stars from the northern part of the international Be program
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| Investigation of the light variability of RX CAS
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| Observational studies of Cepheids. I - BVRI photometry of bright Cepheids
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| Constellation: | Cassiopeia |
| Right ascension: | 03h06m49.33s |
| Declination: | +67°24'37.8" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 7.926 |
| Distance: | 89.847 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -32.6 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -1.2 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.679 |
| V-T magnitude: | 7.989 |
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