"Anybody got a lightmobile? (I'll chip in for the gas.) Sterling K. Webb"
Hi Sterling, unfortunately mine was lost in the car-wash plant, but I can contribute the roadmap, that we won't get astray: Wilhelm Gliese: Catalogue of Nearby Stars, Edition 1969 Veröffentlichungen der Astronomischen Rechen-Institutes Heidelberg Nr.22, Karlsruhe 1969. It's Gliese's second - and the more famous edition - of his Catalogue, also referred to as the "CNS2", (1st ed.was in 1957). Contains the data for 915 stars next to our sun: Number, name, HD number, RA&Dec (1950.0), proper motion, radial velocity, spectral type, luminosity class, apparent magnitude, colour, trigonometic parallax, trigonometrically determined absolute magnitude, spectral & spectroscopic parallax, resulting parallax, resulting absolute magnitude, space velocity components. 4°, paperback, 120pp., in English. It's a very fine copy, clean, no dog-ears, I guess I could call it "Mint Condition". And, it still has the so often missing loose inlaid sheet with the Errata of 1971. Certainly a milestone in the history of special star catalogues and a covetable collectible for the bibliophilic astronomers and stargazers among the list members. (for the non-collectors of the history of astronomy among them, who nevertheless want to start now to hunt for our nearest neighbours, you'll find all data online here: http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/aricns/gliese.htm ). The price - well, honestly, I have no idea. I forgot, what I paid for and this Catalogue appears to be so extremely rare, that I wasn't able over the last years in sporadically checking the antiquarian search engines (abebooks, zvab, bookfinder, ilab...) to identify a reference price, cause it wasn't offered else, than as a Xerox copy (at approx 20$). So just make me offers, until I'll get weak and will let it go. I guess a trade versus a stone (with name) would be possible too.. Clear Skies! Martin Chladni's Heirs ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list