At 11:24 PM 24/3/96 -0400, Mike wrote:

On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Damon Jason Casale wrote:

Four fifths of the way to Andrew's world, a planet circling ****, the 

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	"Until then, we'll keep the showers busy.  Another two and a half 
years until we're scheduled to arrive at God knows what kind of world.  

All OK, so I'm commenting on the star, so sue me :)
I'm assuming that your ship is travelling at just under the speed of 
light, and is 2.5ly away at this point. Assuming the ships launching 
point was Earth, you need a star 12.5ly away. That would have to be
CD-39deg14192 at exactly 12.5ly
Although you could stretch it to encompass these stars:
Luyten 725-32 at 12.4ly ( as opposed to Luyten 726-8A/B at 8.4 ly, so 
don't be puttin' just Luyten :) )
Kapteyn's star at 12.7ly
Krueger 60A/B at 12.8ly ( binary star system )

Use Krueger 60A/B Damon. Binary stars are just so much more visually
interesting ;)

Nicely figured Mike :)

If you're not travelling at c, then ne'er mind :)

^_^

Panda

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