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| A Finding List of Early-Type Stars in Regions of Intermediate Galactic Latitude
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| Constellation: | Serpent |
| Right ascension: | 15h29m26.76s |
| Declination: | +01°50'37.1" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.781 |
| Distance: | 210.526 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 4.6 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 1.3 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.268 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.822 |
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