emamajek on 19-Oct-2018 07:23:32 GMT about SAO 208385
I agree with Brian Skiff here, and Tokovinin et al. 2014 agree:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/50/pdf
(see entry for 17054-3346, under WNO 5)
Gaia DR2 has confirmed that this a distant M giant.
The correct Gaia DR2 counterpart is:
Gaia DR2 5978423918697827712
Gmag = 7.9560 +- 0.0006 (!)
plx = 1.4261 +- 0.0703 mas
The RV template used by Gaia DR2 was for Teff=4000K and log(g) = 3.0, i.e. a M giant.
The Gaia DR2 Apsis/PriAm analysis estimates Teff = 3640K and a luminosity of 513 Lsun, i.e. a M giant.
Visual inspection of the object on DSS scanned images shows that it has barely moved in half a century. And positions in several 20th century catalogs (1954AnCap..17...40J, I/141/yale00, I/131A/sao, I/193/ppm2,
1994BICDS..44....3B
) show it has moved <1-2" over the past century. Hence it is not a high proper motion star, and not comoving with HIP 83612.
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