Hi,
I spent the weekend trying to figure out which stars will have habitable planets in my campaign and where my players will start.
As a result I found a few good resources I would like to share with you:
On the Astrosynthesis website are csv files with all stars found by Hipparcos within 50, 100 and 1000 ly, incl. HIP ID, one other catalogue ID (mostly HD), cartesian coordinates, mass, radius, luminosity and spectral class.
(
http://www.nbos.com/download/download-astro.htm).
On
www.solstation.com you find the real names for many of the stars within 100ly as well as good articles, e.g. about where habitable planets can be found.
And a Margaret Turnbull made her PhD about the most likely stars to have terrestrial planets within 100ly. The list (there are 132) can be downloaded from her homepage (
http://skye.as.arizona.edu/~turnbull/). There is also another file with the raw data.
One remark: I thought about buying Astrosynthesis, but after some time with the trial version I think although the program is good, the price is much too high. Does anyone know an alternative tool to generate star systems?
BR
Juergen