[SPACE] Star Generation

[diamondb]

Noven,

I love the wiki, particularly since I'm in the prep stages of a TL 9 Space game and I was not looking forward to stating out nearby systems.

As for the detail, sure putting info on the main page would be nice, but it seems to me you are already handing a TON of information to any and all who want to use it. Folks should say thanks for the hard work, leave requested feedback and then not dwell on it if said feedback is declined. I say anyone out there too lazy to click and scroll a few times to cherry pick info, isn't that determined to find the desired information.

[Noven]

Work has been ongoing on my wiki and I started thinking about something: is there some website that can tell me how far (lets say....) Kruger 60 is from Alpha Centauri? I know how far both are from Sol, but if someone was in a different system and was going to another, I am drawing a blank on how far they are from each other. Something cool like this is neat and tells me (but is rather useless since it only covers systems within 10 light-years from Sol) what I need to know, but not how to compare 2 distances from each other.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Noven

Work has been ongoing on my wiki and I started thinking about something: is there some website that can tell me how far (lets say....) Kruger 60 is from Alpha Centauri? I know how far both are from Sol, but if someone was in a different system and was going to another, I am drawing a blank on how far they are from each other.

What positional data to you have in your star list?

If you have X, Y, and Z co-ordinates it is just D = SQRT {(X2-X1)^2 + (Y2-Y1)^2 + (Z2-Z1)^2}.

If all you have is right ascension, declination, and parallax you'll have to do a bit of trigonometry.

[Noven]

The only hard data I have is how far each system is from Sol unfortunately.

[Noven]

When I get home, I am going to open up Celestia on my computer (I forgot that I even had it installed!) and see if it can tell be the distance between stars. Its a pretty amazing program from what I have done with it, however my experience is limited with it. If it can tell me the distance between 2 stars, I will be using the heck out of it from now on heh.

[thtraveller]

Originally Posted by Noven

When I get home, I am going to open up Celestia on my computer (I forgot that I even had it installed!) and see if it can tell be the distance between stars. Its a pretty amazing program from what I have done with it, however my experience is limited with it. If it can tell me the distance between 2 stars, I will be using the heck out of it from now on heh.

Of course it does. Just open the "Navigation"-"Star Browser" then "Go To" the required star and press "Refresh". Voila.

[Noven]

Originally Posted by thtraveller

Of course it does. Just open the "Navigation"-"Star Browser" then "Go To" the required star and press "Refresh". Voila.

Excellent. I'll give it a shot when I get home. This will make short work of any navigation questions that hypothetically might come up.

[Noven]

Just to let you all know, Celestia is totally awesome. Kruger 60 is 17.038 light-years from Alpha Centauri. I recommend the program to anyone that has a Space game going on.

[t@nya]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

How did you take account of the effect on the planet's orbits when the central star lost 10% to 60% of its mass in its supernova explosion?

You meant the red giant phase, right? (since white dwarfs don't go supernova)

[Noven]

Wow. I just constructed SCR 1845-6357, and its weird. The brown dwarf in the system has a pretty nice Garden planet heh. All that a space traveler would need would be a breath mask since the atmosphere is a bit thin. I know that page 128 says that garden planets would never appear on brown dwarfs, so what goes there instead when the proximity to the star and system age makes a blackbody temp that gives a garden? I could use an ocean planet, but the roll and the age made it a garden.

http://wiki.noventhehero.com/index.p...845-6357_B_III