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Walraven photometry of nearby southern OB associations
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The distance and structure of the Coalsack. I - Photometric data
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Preferred frequency for interstellar communications
It is suggested that the 4829.659-MHz line frequency of the1(11)-to-1(10) rotational transition of formaldehyde is a plausiblefrequency to monitor for the purpose of detecting interstellarcommunications. The formaldehyde line is of interest because, as aresult of the antimaser effect, it exhibits a very low excitationtemperature. The background radiation temperature in the direction ofdark clouds is below the 3 K background temperature; the backgroundnoise temperature, lowered approximately 1 K, is lower than at any otherfrequency band.

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Observation and Astrometry data

Constellation:Musca
Right ascension:12h35m38.89s
Declination:-65°16'41.0"
Apparent magnitude:8.919
Distance:125.313 parsecs
Proper motion RA:-65.1
Proper motion Dec:-9.2
B-T magnitude:9.389
V-T magnitude:8.958

Catalogs and designations:
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HD 1989HD 109478
TYCHO-2 2000TYC 8996-935-1
USNO-A2.0USNO-A2 0225-14781280
HIPHIP 61457

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