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Effective temperature scale and bolometric corrections from 2MASS photometry
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| Constellation: | Dauphin |
| Right ascension: | 20h55m50.21s |
| Declination: | +03°23'34.1" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.518 |
| Distance: | 328.947 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 1.3 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 6.7 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.865 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.547 |
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