Printed (books, magazines)

365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo, Fireside Books, 1982, ISBN 0-671-76606-6

Nightwatch: An Equinox Guide to Viewing the Universe by Terence Dickinson, Camden House, revised and updated version, 1994, ISBN 0-920656-89-7

The Stars: a New Way to See Them by H. A. Rey (yes, the guy who wrote the Curious George books!), Houghton Mifflin Co, 1980, ISBN 0-395-24830-2

Our Nearest Celestial Neighbors by Joshua Roth, Roger W. Sinnott, in Sky & Telescope October 1996, p 32.

How Far the Stars? Surprises from the Hipparcos Satellite by Michael Perryman, in Sky & Telescope June 1999, p 40.

Links

Notable Nearby Stars - http://www.solstation.com/stars.htm
Excellent site, very nifty interactive charts!

3-D Starmaps - http://www.projectrho.com/starmap.html

3-D Starmaps: Stars SF - http://www.projectrho.com/smap02.html

The 26 Nearest Stars - http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/nearest.html

The 100 Nearest Star Systems - http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/TOP100.htm
astronomical catalog

Jim Kaler (U. Illinois) Stars and Constellations - http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia - http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html

APOD Feb 25 1998, The Solar Neighborhood - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980225.html

RECONS Research Consortium on Nearby Stars - http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS/

The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission - http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/
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