Depends on which astronomer's catalogue you go by.

There is a Bright Star catalogue, which lists all stars visible with the naked eye. It has 9110 entries.

http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc/

Here is the Wikipedia entry on star catalogues, which lists different ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_catalogue

However, you could just make up a reasonably high number.


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