Bring the figures the comments quote back to what the catalogue now holds

Later commits on this branch (0e9ab6f, ff744a0, 8c3a860, and this round's fold, positional lookup
and parallax fallback) changed counts that comments in build.ts, star-readouts.ts, star-catalog.ts
and fetchExoplanets.ts still quoted as "measured" or "today". Each is now the value measured on the
published catalogue after an ETL run from cache (decoded with decodeStarCatalog, or from the
validator log where it prints them):

- distances without a published error 439 -> 346, the Gliese ones 357 -> 264 (82 archive);
- parallax distances ranged 1 109 -> 1 116; HYG stars at Gaia's distance 8 129 -> 8 105, and the
  Gaia-placed stars HYG describes 62 002 -> 61 713 at Gaia's distance, 62 097 in all;
- HYG rows without a Gaia counterpart 11 554 -> 11 478: past 250 pc 8 307 (1 660 naked-eye), inside
  it 3 170 (1 204 brighter than V 8, 1 804 from 8 to 12, 162 fainter, 112 of them Gliese stars
  within 50 pc); the sentence also said those were every star past 250 pc, which the archive's
  hosts no longer let it be;
- planets with a host 6 327 -> 6 328, the 26 left having neither a distance nor a parallax;
- renamed hosts 575 -> 574; the composite table fills 100 of the 127 blank distances, not "the 100".

No ceiling or floor changes; comments only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { HudReadout } from '../hud/hud-dock.component';
/**
* The catalogue that describes a star — its name, type and photometry — as the readout names it.
*
* Not the same as `source`, which records whose *position* the star has: 62 002 stars HYG
* Not the same as `source`, which records whose *position* the star has: 62 097 stars HYG
* describes sit where Gaia places them, and carry `gaia`. What gives them away is their V
* magnitude, which only HYG and the archive measure and the archive's stars have their own source.
*/
@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ function radiusReadout(radiusSolar: number, derived: boolean): HudReadout {
* Exoplanet Archive places, which sit at its own distances — a lensing model's for the
* microlensing hosts among them, OGLE-2005-BLG-390L's 6.6 kpc for one, with no parallax behind it —
* and the HYG stars neither Hipparcos nor Gaia measured, which sit at the Gliese catalogue's. Those
* have no published error, and of the 313 on the map about 154 have a photometric or spectroscopic
* parallax in CNS3 (Gliese & Jahreiss 1991), none measured: GJ 3522 at 4.46 pc is 1000/224 mas.
* have no published error, and of the 313 on the map before 49 were folded into the Gaia source SIMBAD names
* them as (264 now), about 154 had a photometric or spectroscopic parallax in CNS3 (Gliese &
* Jahreiss 1991), none measured: GJ 3522 at 4.46 pc is 1000/224 mas.
*/
export function positionsNote(stars: readonly StarRecord[]): string {
const archive = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'exoplanet-archive').length;
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export const BYTES_PER_STAR_META =
/**
* Bits of the photometry column. The band takes two: none (a stand-in magnitude), V or G. None
* of it follows from the source, which records where the *position* came from: 62 002 stars
* of it follows from the source, which records where the *position* came from: 62 097 stars
* Gaia places keep HYG's V and B−V, and the archive's stars in G have a B−V from their
* temperature. The next bit says whose parallax the distance is, which for a HYG star Gaia did
* not place can still be Gaia's, and the last whether the colour was read off a temperature.