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Old 29-July-2009, 05:39 AM
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There doesn't seem to be a list, yet. The information on the Local Fluff (and map) may have been extracted from observations by the Hubble Telescope's Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph. A report on the observations from 1995 can be found in:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995A&A...304..461L

A summary is in Table 1 of that reference. If this is the source of the information for the plot, then the 2-D nature of the plot is because most of the stars used for finding the extent of the Local Fluff lie near the plane of the galaxy, and so the view is looking down on that plane. On the other hand, the included image (also in APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020210.html and Wikipedia) looks significantly different from that in Figure 9 of that article. You may want to check with the person who drew the graphics - Priscilla Frisch (U. Chicago).

Anyway, the thickness of the Local Fluff is negligible in the direction of beta Leo (longitude and declination 250.6, 70.8) and very small in the direction of alpha CMa (227, -9). It's greatest in the directions of alpha Lyr (67.5, 19) and beta Pic (258, -30.5). It's fairly uniform in other directions. Perhaps you can work out which stars are within it from that.
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