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Originally Posted by OneOfOne
Maybe I should make up some numbers....they'll never know  |
Never, ever do that. It immediately discredits anything you do and punishes the very heart of astronomy as a science.
I would suggest something like...
"The current distance and relationships of all these stars is uncertain. Assuming mean distances of the brighter stars in the asterism that have known Hipparcos parallaxes, the approximate distance is xx parsecs. Projected size of the asterism at this distance is xxx parsecs."