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W61 8-7

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Right ascension: 05h 39m 41.78s
Declination: −69° 11′ 31.0″
Galactic l, b: 279.56, -31.57
Magnitude V: 14.67
Parallax: 0.0013 mas
Redshift z: 0.00084063
Radial velocity: 251.91 km/s
Proper motion: 1.905, 0.557 mas/yr

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
VFTS 834	Star	15.04″	15.19
VFTS 825	Star	17.39″	16.2
VFTS 840	Star	17.98″	16.74
VFTS 827	SB*	18.79″	15.34
VFTS 826	Star	20.13″	14.85
2MASS J05394267-6911512	YSO Candidate	20.98″	16.29
VFTS 835	Star	21.98″	—
VFTS 836	Star	23.05″	15.71
W61 8-4	LongPeriodV*	24.53″	14.67
VFTS 823	Star	25.19″	16.06
VFTS 832	Star	26.41″	16.5

Provenance

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Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
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Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/w61-8-7 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.