Re: Stars (was: RE: [OFFICIAL] Background thoughts(Size of Human Space))

>Alternately, you can check out the Near Star List in 2300 AD, which
>lists all stars within 50 ly of Sol, and (if you buy the Kafer
>sourcebook) 25 ly (I think) of the Kafer homeworld.  (There's a good
bit
>of overlap in there, though.)	All in all there are roughly 750 stars
>listed there... it's based off the second edition of the Gliese Star
>Catalog, IIRC, and some of the data changed in the third edition, but
>what the heck.

And I thought it was 'Joachim Heck'...	;-)

Who, btw, pointed me towards:

    http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.html

I haven't had any time to bring up a browser to look it over, so you
guys'll have to explore it w/out input from me.  ;-)

Mk
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