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Desiderata for the Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. Gliese*
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg

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In 1969 the second edition of the “Catalogue of Nearby Stars” was published. It contains 1529 single stars and systems with a total of 1890 components. The catalogue lists all stars with parallaxes equal to or larger than 0.”045. Only 1049 of these objects are nearer than 20 pc. The “Catalogue of Stars within 25 pc of the Sun”, published 1970 in the Royal Observatory Annals No. 5 consists of 1744 systems of which 1566 trigonometric parallaxes.

Type
Part I. Standards for the Presentation of Data
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1977