Just BASIC Files Archive

Here are the RECONS data. Regret unable to attach image.

Here's sieved data for stars within 10, 20, 30 & 40 light-years as requested.
I've included our Sun as star #0.

Copy/paste REM & DATA fields into your program. The fields are: Hipparchos catalogue number, multiplicity(?), X, Y, Z, R (all light years), Abs Magnitude. Note latter is an inverse log ...

Attached is a bigger chunk, by request.

FWIW, the original, zipped mega-file is on a fast server here as the text.gz across from hip2.dat which is in binary format. The ReadMe file on that page has full fields info.

hip2_500.zip
See program

Program reads through Hipparchos catalogue of nearby stars, filters by distance, calculates and reports Absolute Magnitude plus distance and XYZ co-ordinates in light years.

As the main file is too big for JB's internal counters, file must be split with eg Notepad or ...