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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: nearby stars
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 10:46:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 10:46:23 1985
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Bruce,
  I'm sorry to put this in the net, but I'm not sure how to get mail to
you dependably.  I looked up the Catalog of Nearby Stars and came up empty.
There are catalogs of stars with large proper motions (angular motion on
the sky) which must be predominantly nearby stars.  I didn't find any that
included distance estimates.  The closest I came was a catalog published
as a Royal Observatory Bulletin (Vol 51) which gives spatial velocities
for some 3483 stars.  This catalog necessarily includes distance estimates,
most of which are based on spectral classification rather than a measured
parallax.  If you can find the catalog then column VIII gives the distance
modulus.  This is related to distance by 

     Distance (in tens of parsecs) = 10^^(0.2*distance modulus)

The catalog was compiled by Olin Eggin.  I hope this helps.