[net.space] Nearby stars revisited

space@mit-mc (03/14/85)

From: TERRY%SAV@LLL-MFE.ARPA

I apologize for sending this to the whole group, but I don't have in hand
the address of the person looking for nearby stars.  In any case, some of
you may be interested in these references anyway.

I have come up with more and better lists of nearby stars, these including
the positions.  But still all I can find is the top 50 or so.  If you want
one of these lists, I'll type it in and send it.  I'm still looking.

Terry R. Friedrichsen


George Abell, "Exploration of the Universe, 2nd ed.", Holt, Rinehart, and
Winston, 1969.
Appendix 12, page 698, lists about 50 nearby stars (counting multiples as
n separate stars), including position, distance, proper motion, radial
velocity, spectral type, and visual and absolute magnitudes.
Its source is unspecified.

Arthur P. Norton, "Norton's Star Atlas, 17th ed.", Sky Publishing Corporation,
1978.
Table 45, page 89, lists 25 nearby stars (same conditions as before), with
the same information as above, except gives parallax instead of proper motion.
Its source is also unspecified.

Elske Smith and Kenneth Jacobs, "Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics",
W. B. Saunders Company, 1973.
Table A2-5, page 531, lists about 50 nearby stars, with the same information
as Abell, minus the radial velocity.
It credits distances to P. van de Kamp, and proper motions to W. Gliese.