space@mit-mc (03/14/85)
From: TERRY%SAV@LLL-MFE.ARPA This is in reply to the person who wanted a list of nearby stars (Bruce Webster?); I have lost the address. Oh, to be in Tucson again, THE astronomy school. I could have scared up the catalog easily; I thought sure someone else would. Anyway, I'll hit a library or two here in San Diego. In the meantime, I have a list of 35 nearby stars, compiled by Peter Van de Kamp in 1945. No RA and DEC, but I can get that else- where. It does have absolute and apparent magnitudes, spectral class- ification, proper motion, distance and luminosity. I know it is old, and I can understand that you'd want the latest data to fend off nitpickers, and I think you wanted 100 of them. But, if it will help, I'll key it in, get the positions (epoch 1950.0; I'm not sure I can scare up 2000.0 positions really fast), and ship it to you. Reply to TERRY%LAJ.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA and give me your full mail address (I think you were "@NOSC"; is that an ARPANET node?). Terry