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W61 8-17

RedSG SIMBAD s*r M1Iab 11 papers

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Right ascension: 05h 40m 49.84s
Declination: −69° 22′ 45.5″
Galactic l, b: 279.77, -31.45
Magnitude V: 11.35
Parallax: 0.0215 mas
Redshift z: 0.00087731
Radial velocity: 262.9 km/s
Proper motion: 2.387, 0.939 mas/yr

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
H88 308	Cluster*	5.073″	11.69
[W60] A86	Evolved*	24.71″	13.8
[W60] A88	RedSG	49.15″	12.96
SV* HV 5993	RedSG	57.31″	13.58
OGLE LMC-ECL-22366	EclBin	70.49″	16.02
OGLE LMC-ECL-22341	EclBin	70.67″	18.41
RM 1-751	LongPeriodV*	77.17″	13.9
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-21471	RRLyrae	94.81″	20.01
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-21366	RRLyrae	104.2″	19.24
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-21496	RRLyrae	112.7″	19.82
OGLE LMC-RRLYR-21416	RRLyrae	122.2″	20.23

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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/w61-8-17 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.