[layman]

According to my calculations it is 347 light years away.

[Flick Lives]

According to my calculations it is 347 light years away.

347 light years, 42 miles, 9 feet, and 3/4 inches, to be precise. I double checked it.

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course the 323 figure is in Roman years. If they were using the Islamic calendar (expect NASA to adopt that any day now to show respect for Muslim contributions to science), it would be about 3% more so something like 333 light-years (since their year is 11 days shorter than the solar year).

Of course if we were to use Martian years it would be a lot less since the Martian year is 1.88 of our years (687 days). Mars is tilted 25 degrees but I don't know which star would be the North Star on Mars--chances are it is not Polaris. So the Martians probably could care less how far away Polaris is. Anyway they must be hiding way under the surface since our spaceships have yet to find them.