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VFTS 840

Star SIMBAD * B1.5:Ve 6 papers

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Right ascension: 05h 39m 42.17s
Declination: −69° 11′ 48.9″
Galactic l, b: 279.57, -31.57
Magnitude V: 16.74
Redshift z: 0.00078986
Radial velocity: 236.7 km/s

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
2MASS J05394267-6911512	YSO Candidate	3.772″	16.29
VFTS 835	Star	7.92″	—
VFTS 836	Star	8.093″	15.71
VFTS 834	Star	11.06″	15.19
VFTS 832	Star	13.55″	16.5
W61 8-4	LongPeriodV*	15.02″	14.67
VFTS 826	Star	15.83″	14.85
VFTS 827	SB*	16.14″	15.34
VFTS 823	Star	16.79″	16.06
VFTS 824	Star	17.22″	16.36
VFTS 825	Star	17.31″	16.2

Provenance

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

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/vfts-840 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.