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Where exactly is the Ceril VII Star System.
kmanktelow:
Hi, All,
This is probably a dumb question, but I've just spent the last couple of hours playing with the Astronomy program Celestia (downloadable from http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html with the 2,000,000 Star Add-on database from http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/extrasolar_stars.php) and I've been trying to work out exactly where the Kulthean solar system actually is, in space. :o
From the starmap given in 'Imperial Crisis' the Ceril star is about 79LY from 3 Ceti, which by my reckoning using Celestia makes it the star HIP 993/HD 805/SAO 128638, which is just over 79LY from it. This could account for the movement in the next 10,000 or so years.
The only problem with this is that HIP 993 is a spectral class G5 star, and is around 57 times brighter than our own sun- and is 8 times the size- although they have got similar surface temperatures.
Does anyone else have any better ideas? Terry?
This may sound like a stupid question, but one of the really useful things with Celestia is that not only can you 'go to' the star in question- but you can also revolve around it. And, probably even more useful, you can add planets, moons, spacecraft, etc, around Stars using it's add-on system (I've currently got all the Babylon 5 spacecraft orbiting Epsilon Eridani III- with the Shadow/Drahk vessels orbiting Z'ha Dhum. Sad, I know!) ;D
But, wouldn't it be nice to be able to view the stars that are actually seen from Kulthea?!?!? ;)
Any ideas would be appreciated.
All the Best,
Kevin.
markc:
I do not know but I think they just might have made up some star system information or even the star system information back then was different than we have now. We have ahd some good advances in the astronomy field since the 80's and it would not suprise me one bit if they were slightly off in some way.
MDC
Terry K. Amthor:
Yep, we fudged a lot back then, though I tried to find some kind of 3D software that would let me view starmaps. There were a few clunky things but it was 20 years ago!
A better candidate would be HP 1082 maybe,and we are a bit off on our measurements. Is there any way t use Celestia to create the kulthean solar system from scratch? Now THAT would be cool. I wanted to do it in Bryce but too much work.
kmanktelow:
Hi, Terry,
Yes, Celestia allows the creation of complete solar systems- replete with Orbital Instations, Space Craft, moons, satellites. There's add-ons for Star Trek, Babylon 5 (I've got all the B-5 addons), and various other fictional Solar Systems.
It just mean understanding the *.ssc file structure (editable in Wordpad) to set up the objects, orbits and texture maps.
I've started to look at the Solar System Construction file format- and I'll have another look this evening. We're looking after the Grandchildren today. ;D
All the Best,
Kevin.
markc:
I have one but cannot remember the name right now but they have the features you talked about above as well as the ability to download all the star info for our universe for 50ly and 100ly from earth. I will check later but thoes are the numbers that stick in my mind.
O the good old days of HP. I have an HP 48SX that I need to see if I can get the screen replaced on as I love reverse pollish! It also has more memory than my first computer and the Chem and Phys add on card.
I think the program is Astro Synthsis but again I will check later and get back to you.
MDC
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