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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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| Radial velocity measurements. I - Ground-based observations of the program stars for the HIPPARCOS satellite
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| The fourth meridian catalog of Besancon Observatory
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| Constellation: | Couronne boréale |
| Right ascension: | 16h13m12.92s |
| Declination: | +38°04'20.7" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 7.09 |
| Distance: | 73.801 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -20.4 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 24.8 |
| B-T magnitude: | 7.459 |
| V-T magnitude: | 7.121 |
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