space@mit-mc (03/12/85)
From: <bang!crash!bwebster@Nosc>
Josh -
Please tell me you didn't key in that whole list yourself! If you did, then
I'm really going to feel bad. I'm afraid that the list doesn't help all that
much, at least not for the nearby stars. Case in point: the list I am
currently working with (100 nearest stars, from Allen's "Astrophysical
Quantities") deals entirely with stars with a parallax <= 0.155. The list
you sent only had seven stars in that same region, all of which I already had.
Actually, I feel so bad about not being able to use the lists send by you
and by Mike Caplinger that I'm going to put together and post a "bright
stars" list as well. Hell, that's all that astronomers are interested in
(to judge by the predominance of bright star lists), so I might as well
include it. Your work isn't going entirely to waste, but I still feel
bad.
To the rest of INFO-SPACE:
Many thanks for the reponses I've received, but *please* don't try to
extract a nearby stars list from a bright stars list. It just isn't worth
the effort. I know that a publication entitled "Catalog of Nearby Stars"
exists; I've seen references to it in bibliographies. The question is, *where*
is it? If any of you know, please let me know. Thanks.
..bruce..
Bruce Webster/BYTE Magazine
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