[meteorite-list] AD: Gliese's Roadmap for the Lightmobile

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:38:40 +0200
Message-ID: <010901c78736$a811a1a0$e46dfea9_at_name86d88d87e2>

"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
Ver?ffentlichungen 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
Received on Wed 25 Apr 2007 08:38:40 AM PDT