Andrea Leistra wrote:
>
> My guess is that the author invented these catalogs out
> of whole cloth; they probably refer to existing stars
> under other names.
>
Maybe. The Stars in RAH's Friday are real stars.
>> I did find a star number 3722 in the LHS catalog, but this
>> star is 84 light-years away (if I did the math correctly,
>> the paralax is 38.1 plus or minus 3.6), and I don't have
>> its spectral type
>
> That's an M4. And assuming that the units you have parallax in are
> milliarcseconds, that's the right distance.
>
Yep, milliarcseconds.
BTW, do you know what the people from the RAH egroup said?
"Heinlein probably made up those stars, don't try to find
them". Bah. If RAH made them, it's one more reason to
try to find! :-)
Alberto Monteiro
