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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Blitzerland on March 25, 2005, 10:38:33 pm

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: Blitzerland on March 25, 2005, 10:38:33 pm

And no, not a Freespace star chart, an actual star chart. My googling has failed to locate a decent one, so I didn't think it could hurt to ask here.

It must contain Sol/whatever you wanna call the Sun, and the distances have to be at least semi-accurate.

So, got star chart?

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: karajorma on March 26, 2005, 03:33:23 am

I wouldn't mind a link to one either. The ISDB (http://www.stellar-database.com/) will give me the distances but only one at a time.

To be honest when I need a star chart I tend to fire up my Amiga emulator and play Frontier cause there's a good easily rotatable one in there :D

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 26, 2005, 03:44:17 am

I wouldn't mind some sort of star chart, either. But in some data form, that's easily parsable to, say, TBL form...

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: kasperl on March 26, 2005, 06:04:08 am

WMC: The stelllar db Karajorma linked to is the one you're looking for. Great system with acces files. :doubt: But I think you can parse that into something readable, somehow.

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: Sandwich on March 26, 2005, 10:32:18 am

Gah, what was that site I linked to a few years back? Had an interactive 3d javascript starchart - really rocked. Solsystem or somesuch.

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: Sandwich on March 26, 2005, 10:42:11 am

Ahh, found the site: http://www.solstation.com/

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: Black Wolf on March 29, 2005, 12:38:03 pm

Try Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/). It owns.

Title: Star chart, where art thou?
Post by: karajorma on March 29, 2005, 01:09:16 pm

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Ahh, found the site: http://www.solstation.com/

I should have remembered Solstation as I've linked to it several times before. Only problem is that the only map with all the stars on it only covers around 27 LY. That's still better than nothing though. :D

Gonna try Celestia though :D