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The Keck Aperture-masking Experiment: Near-Infrared Sizes of Dusty Wolf-Rayet Stars
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| Constel·lació: | Sagittarius |
| Ascensió Recta: | 18h00m24.74s |
| Declinació: | -19°13'51.6" |
| Magnitud Aparent: | 7.921 |
| Distancia: | 1587.302 parsecs |
| Moviment propi RA: | 3.1 |
| Moviment propi Dec: | -0.3 |
| B-T magnitude: | 10.176 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.108 |
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