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Old 14-January-2004, 10:32 AM
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Star catalogs are quite easy to obtain, if you don't mind getting slightly old data. I usually look in the Gliese-Jahreiss catalog from 1991, which lists stars within 25 parsecs (about 82 light years). It's available for download from various places, among others this one:
http://www.projectrho.com/gliese3.zip
The data can be slightly cryptic to extract from the file directly, so the zip should include a documentation on what the various fields mean.

There are a lot of other links to star catalogs on this page as well.
http://www.projectrho.com/smap06.html

I ran a quick search through the Gliese catalog and came up with 41 "G2 V" stars, not counting the sun. Not sure what you mean by "like the sun", but that's pretty close in my opinion.
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