Determining the Qualities of Stars

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

Are you using real stellar data for position etc.? If so, are you aware of the Extended Hipparcos compilation of stellar data? I find it pretty useful.

I count 295 G0V stars within 200 light-years.

I wasn't planning on it - Earth's night sky looks more-or-less the same as in reality, with the glaring exception of the Harpy constellation, but I intended to pretty much just throw the aetheric systems around semi-randomly. Assuming I'm using the catalog properly, I'm pretty certain I'll still need to do that - the catalogue only contains 4 G0V stars between 3 and 5 billion years old, and maybe only 3 of them (HIP 726, 12099, and and 33460) are around the right age to be aetheric (the 4th is 4.7 billion years old, the other three are 4.1, 4.1, and 4.0, respectively). They're also all quite a bit brighter than Harpyian Mati. I haven't yet decided how distant systems will be from each other, although I initially intended to have them be relatively clustered together, with Harpyian Mati some distance from the main cluster. I may still do so.

Originally Posted by Agemegos

άρπυια is a first-declension feminine noun ending in -α. I think the genitive is άρπυιασ. "Harpyias".

I thought that might be the case, actually. I'll probably change it to Harpyias Mati, then.