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Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 12:12:17 am
Hey,   found something really cool:)  If your curious about where some freespace systems habitable zones and the orbits of there stars then look here (http://www.solstation.com/orbits.htm) :D
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Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2004, 02:36:09 am
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/Stars%20and%20Planets

and this is the info on these systems from the wiki, it might be worth the time to add some real data in that too.
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: karajorma on March 20, 2004, 06:07:47 am
I really should have mentioned SolStation's habitable zones diagrams before :D

Still I've linked to their site several times :)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Flipside on March 20, 2004, 10:18:59 am
hehhehe Interesting stuff though :)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 11:27:32 am
does anyone no a site like this one that has more and kasperl do you want someone to add system information on the wiki?:)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2004, 11:30:11 am
any adding to the wiki is great, and i mean that.
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 11:48:25 am
I wouldn't mind, how do I do it?
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Flipside on March 20, 2004, 12:01:13 pm
Check the Wiki thread, I expect poor Kasperl is wearing his keyboard down from typing the url ;)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2004, 12:17:21 pm
well, no, the phrase, "click the link under my name to take you to the wiki" is doing that.
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 12:18:42 pm
Well, how do I edit... who do I sign in as??
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2004, 12:38:10 pm
JdJtcagle

just an example, RTFM, please, RTFM.
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 12:44:59 pm
Hate to ask but is that "recheck the field material":lol:
what does that mean:p
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Flipside on March 20, 2004, 12:49:36 pm
it means.....Read The Help Page.. well, no it doesn't but the senitment remains ;)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: karajorma on March 20, 2004, 01:01:19 pm
Quote
Originally posted by jdjtcagle
does anyone no a site like this one that has more


The Internet Stellar Database (http://www.stellar-database.com/) - Details on just about every visible star, Also has a very handy distance calculator that will show all the stars within a certain number of Light Years. This is Incredibly useful when you want to work out how long it would take a ship to reach another system (not so much for Freespace but for any universe like Star Trek or B5 where distance is a factor).

The site is basically designed for scientists and astronomers but that simply means that it gives you lots of info you don't need. You can just ignore it and take what you want :)
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: kasperl on March 20, 2004, 02:10:39 pm
nice link, Kara.

i just grabbed the acces file of the dbase, and it is usable without the website. if you have Acces 97 or newer, then you can grab the 2 meg file and safe yourself the trouble of depending on net acces. The tables get quite messy off line, but if you take a little time to learn to use it, it is quite handy.
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Xelion on March 20, 2004, 09:14:56 pm
I compiled this quite a while ago, thought it might be useful to the threads' purpose. Although some info may be different as it was collected from several sources, especially the RA and DEC.

Star Systems ("http://home.iprimus.com.au/nexus387/forums/star_systems.zip")
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: jdjtcagle on March 20, 2004, 11:39:39 pm
Really nice work there.:)
add all that to the Wiki!!
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Xelion on March 21, 2004, 11:25:35 pm
personally I would but I don't have the time...:( still I think half the information in the file is straying away from what the wiki was intended to be for Freespace
Title: Freespace's Star System's info
Post by: Eishtmo on March 22, 2004, 07:54:39 pm
Quote
Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Hate to ask but is that "recheck the field material":lol:
what does that mean:p


Wiki is weird.  You need to type in your login with two capitol letters.  Like TheEishtmo for me.  It's weird and stupid.