DarkerView on 18-Jun-2020 00:48:34 GMT about * 47 Oph
The use of 47 Ophiuchi as an identifier for HR 6493 is possibly in error, albeit one that often appears in catalogs. The original star charted by Flamsteed for 47 Oph is HR 6496 now located in Serpens under modern boundaries, a source of possible confusion.
See Wagman, Missing Flamsteed Stars (http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?db_key=AST&bibcode=1987JHA....18..209W)
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