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Old 08-02-2010, 09:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
Think you have a typo David. It's 8d 0m 9.9s

http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/alapre.pl....90&button=RGB


Which matches pretty closely the GSC-1.2 entry:

GSC 5546-222
Visual Magnitude: 13.55
Mag.band: 0
Class: 0
Multiple Flag: T
Photographic Plate: 03UY
Pos.error: 0.4
Mag.error: 0.4
Mean J2000 RA: 13h47m05.043s DE:-08°00'10.05"

Lightly editted DSS image with GSC 5546-222 in yellow.
Cheers Andrew - so do we know which star it is in the field? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I have no idea what's going on here now
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