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* eta Car

BlueSG SIMBAD s*b LBV 2,566 papers

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Right ascension: 10h 45m 03.55s
Declination: −59° 41′ 04.0″
Galactic l, b: 287.6, -0.6295
Magnitude V: 6.48
Redshift z: -8.339e-05
Radial velocity: -25 km/s
Proper motion: -11, 4.1 mas/yr

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
Homunculus Nebula	ISM	0.3503″	—
eta Car Cluster	Cluster*	4.133″	—
Cl Trumpler 16 65	Star	13.8″	11.02
Cl Trumpler 16 64	Star	13.89″	10.66
GES J10450130-5941118	Star	18.75″	15.7
Cl Trumpler 16 66	Star	19.97″	11.89
Cl Trumpler 16 201	Star	20.23″	14.08
Cl Trumpler 16 67	Star	20.95″	13.65
CXOGNC J104505.21-594044.0	Star	24.03″	14.78
DETWC Tr 16 J104506.3-594118	Star	25.14″	15.66
Cl Trumpler 16 68	Star	25.71″	12.42

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/eta-car · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.