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Re: starship-design: Stars_within_16_light_years_of_the_Sun
> 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