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Effective temperature scale and bolometric corrections from 2MASS photometry
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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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| UvbyH-beta photoelectric and CCD photometry of IC 4651
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| Radial velocities of bright southern stars. V - 146 Population II F stars and related stars
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| Estimation of spectral classifications for bright southern stars with interesting Stromgren indices
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| Spectral types of stars with unusual photometric indices
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| Constellation: | Steinbock |
| Right ascension: | 20h10m00.95s |
| Declination: | -13°02'46.9" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.388 |
| Distance: | 187.617 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 15.3 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -5.3 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.049 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.443 |
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