... There are two basic arguments which justify finding nearby stars: detailed study of individual stars, and stellar statistics. ... Our analysis is given at this site , where we present data for our sample of stars (and brown dwarfs) within 8 parsecs of the Sun. ... Extending the distance limit to 22 parsecs (parallaxes exceeding 44 mas), Gliese increased the sample size to 1890 stars in 1529 systems, and data for those stars were published in 1969 as the Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gliese, 1969: CNS2)...