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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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| Identification of a Complete Sample of Northern ROSAT All-Sky Survey X-Ray Sources. III. The Catalog
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| Micrometer Measures of Double Stars
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| Mesures et decouvertes d'etoiles doubles effectuees a la lunette de 50cm de l'Observatoire de Nice. Measures and discoveries of visual double stars made with the 50cm refractor at the Nice Observatory.
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| Stroemgren photometry of F- and G-type stars brighter than V = 9.6. I. UVBY photometry
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| A preliminary compilation of DS-programme star positions
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| Constellation: | Taurus |
| Right ascension: | 03h44m58.93s |
| Declination: | +08°19'10.4" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 9.371 |
| Proper motion RA: | 23 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -33.3 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.949 |
| V-T magnitude: | 9.419 |
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