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Subject: One sunday night.. Starsearching -Reply
From: Ralph Pass
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Feb 06 06:22:35 1996

The duplicates are because the first 250 stars are bright stars more or
less scattered evenly about the sky. The next 100 stars are interesting
double stars, and the last star is the closest approximation to a south
pole star.

The selection of stars was done sort of 'blind' which explains why
there are duplicates (or each of a double star in the list, or repeating
nova, or Mira, ....).

Ralph