Re: starship-design: Stars_within_16_light_years_of_the_Sun

[Zenon Kulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>]

> From: "L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>
> 
> Stars within 16 light years of the Sun									
> NAME		  DISTANCE	SPECTRAL	APPARENT	VISUAL	
> 		  (in parsecs)  TYPE		MAGNITUDE 	MAGNITUDE		
> Sun		    N/A		G2 V		-26.72		4.85	
> Proxima Centauri  1.3		M6 V		11.05		15.49	
> Alpha Centauri A  1.33	G2 V		-0.01		4.37	
> Alpha Centauri B  1.83	K1 V		1.33		5.71	
>
There is most probably an error - the distance to A and B 
is nearly the same, certainly much less than between any of them 
and Proxima, so there should probably be 1.33 parcecs for both.

-- Zenon