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Near-infrared speckle interferometry and radiative transfer modelling of the carbon star LP Andromedae
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| Constellation: | Andromeda |
| Right ascension: | 23h36m51.82s |
| Declination: | +43°18'32.1" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 7.776 |
| Distance: | 495.05 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -2.6 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -5.6 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.344 |
| V-T magnitude: | 7.906 |
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