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W61 6-55

Star SIMBAD * O9.5II 7 papers

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Right ascension: 05h 42m 08.96s
Declination: −69° 12′ 19.8″
Galactic l, b: 279.55, -31.36
Magnitude V: 13.16
Parallax: 0.0202 mas
Redshift z: 0.00084361
Radial velocity: 252.8 km/s
Proper motion: 1.846, 0.545 mas/yr

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
OGLE LMC-CEP-2969	ClassicalCep	8.816″	16.21
NGC 2100	Cluster*	11.8″	—
W61 6-45	LongPeriodV* Candidate	13.93″	14
LH 111	Association	16.19″	—
W61 6-43	LongPeriodV*	16.32″	13.68
W61 6-69	Star	18.4″	13.61
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-21777	RRLyrae	20.2″	19.41
W61 6-56	Star	28.3″	13.8
W61 6-46	Star	30.94″	13.76
W61 6-65	LongPeriodV*	32.07″	14.03
W61 6-51	Evolved*	36.99″	13.66

Provenance

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Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/w61-6-55 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.