Re: List of Objects By Distance (Light Years)?


rockfalls3@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thank you for your reply. The chara.gsu.edu website is very
interesting, although (as you note), limited for my purposes. However,
unlike the Hipparcos data, this website includes the common names of
the stars.

I should mention that I'm not an astronomer, and I'm looking for this
data to share with others who are most likely also not astronomers. So,
arcsecond calculations of parallax are beyond me.

It's easy to convert, roughly you divide 3260 by distance
to get parallax or vice versa, so if you want a star 326 light
years away, that's 10mas parallax.

My preference (and I
should have been clearer with the original post) is to have a list with
the common names of the stars (or other objects), indicating light-year
distance.

The following is a list of most common names

http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html

As you can see there aren't too many. Unfortunately
it doesn't give distances but you can enter the names
into SIMBAD

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl

For example I entered "Mirach" and it told me the parallax
was 16.36 mas which is 3260 / 16.36 = 199 light years.

It might be easiest to spend a little time going through that
list working out the distance for each and write your own list.

An additional preference is *visible* stars that can be seen
with the naked eye (yes, that severely cuts down the data set, and I
apologize for not mentioning that previously).

Generally stars only have names if they are easily
visible since there were given centuries ago.

George

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