Hi, this is my first post, and i am doing some research... need help quick! I am looking for a list of stars that are like the sun, and are 100 light years or closers to earth. Please Please Please!! If anyone knows where I can go to attain such a list I would truly appreciate it!!

Thank You,

squaw

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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Sol Station is pretty cool too.

Click on this thread for the "most" sun-like star. I think it was about 47 light years distant.

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18 Scorpii is the most sunlike star within 50ly of Sol; but there are quite a few other fairly good matches, like Eta Cassiopea and HR 8323;
When I can I'll make a little list..

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These are the closest matches to the Sun out to 45 ly; some are wide binaries like Alpha Centauri, with just enough room for a few planets;
some are very close binaries, and it is possible that planets could orbit at a cofortable distance around the pair as if they were singular...

Nearby Sun-like stars (all these stars are G class dwarfs)
best matches in red

Alpha Centauri A (Distance from Sol: 4.395 ly) (Luminosity 1.567 x Sol) (warning- binary system)
Tau Ceti 11.9 ly (Lum 0.463 x Sol) class
Eta Cassiopeiae 19.4149 ly, lum 1.287 x Sol
82 Eridani 19.77 ly, lum 0.632 x Sol
Delta Pavonis 19.92 ly, lum 1.231 x Sol
Xi Bootis 21.85 ly, lum 1.440 x Sol (warning variable)
Beta Canum Venaticorum 27.3 ly, lum 1.203 x Sol (warning close orbiting binary pair)
61 Virginis 27.8 ly, lum 0.805 x Sol
Gliese 666 28.7 ly, lum 0.41 x Sol
Beta Comae Berenices 29.86 ly, lum 1.447 x Sol
Kappa Ceti 29.87 ly, lum 0.851 x Sol (possible close binary)
Gliese 442 30.14 ly, lum 0.815 x Sol
61 Ursae Majoris 31.12 ly lum 0.589 x Sol
Alpha Mensae 33.1 ly, lum 0.833 x Sol
Iota Persei 34.36 ly, lum 2.321 x Sol
Delta Trianguli 35.38 ly, lum 1.161 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
11 Leonis Minoris 36.46 ly, 0.746 x Sol
Gliese 534.1 37 ly, lum 0.5 x Sol
Lambda Serpentis 38.34 ly, lum 2.049 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
HR 6439 38 ly, lum 0.4 x Sol
Zeta 2 Reticuli 39.4ly lum 1.020 x Sol
Zeta 1 Reticuli 39.5 ly, lum 0.786 x Sol
Zeta Trianguli Australis 39.48 ly, lum1.399 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
85 Pegasi 40.5 ly, lum 0.64 x Sol (binary system)
55 Cancri 40.9 ly, lum 0.57 x Sol (several detected planets)
Gliese 302 41ly, lum 0.567 x Sol
Gliese 67 41.2 ly lum 1.45 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
Lambda Aurigae 41.2 ly, lum 1.83 x Sol
Gliese 95 41.35 ly, lum 0.406 x Sol
Gliese 620.1 42 ly, lum 1.01 x Sol
Gliese 722 42.3 ly, lum 0.93 x Sol
58 Eridani 43.4 ly, lum 0.98 x Sol
HR 4489 43.46 ly, lum 0.4 x Sol
Gliese 853 44.39 ly, lum 1.127 x Sol
HR 8935 45 ly, lum 0.8 x Sol
18 Scorpii 45.7 ly, lum 1.08 x Sol
47 Ursae Majoris 45.9 ly, lum 1.679 x Sol (at least one planet)

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This page has a good list of all the main stars within 50 ly, with a map;

http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/50lys.html

I see that one of the stars I marked in red (Gl 620) has a white dwarf companion; sounds like an interesting place to colonise...

the map on this page has the same orientation as this map of the Orion's Arm Inner Sphere, by the way...
http://www.orionsarm.com/galactograp...er_Sphere.html

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