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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Eishtmo on October 03, 2001, 07:50:00 pm
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Well, its taken a while, but I've got just about everything I could about the stars of Freespace. Only four seem not to exist (aside from Vasuda, the only system I didn't even bother with), so this is about it. And now, in no particular order, the Stars of Freespace. Enjoy.
Star: Beta Aquilae
Distance from Sol: 44.7 lyrs, 13.7 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: G8-Yellow Main Sequence
M3-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 19h55m18.799s
Declination: +6°24'24.29"
Star: Alpha Centauri
Distance from Sol: 4.395 lyrs, 1.347 par
Type of System: Trinary
Color: G2-Yellow Main Sequence
K4-Orange Main Sequence
M5e-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 14h39m35.88s
Declination: -60°50'7.4"
Star: Sirius
Distance from Sol: 8.601 lyrs, 2.637 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: A1-White Main Sequence
A2-White Dwarf
Right Ascension: 6h45m8.871s
Declination: -16°42'57.99"
Star: Antares
Distance from Sol: 604 lyrs, 185 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: M1-Red Giant
B4-Blue Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 16h29m24.439s
Declination: -26°25'55.15"
Star: Deneb
Distance from Sol: 1600 lyrs, 491 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: A2-White Super Giant
Right Ascension: 20h41m25.917s
Declination: +45°16'49.31"
Star: Vega
Distance from Sol: 25.30 lyrs, 7.756 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: A0-White Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 18h36m56.332s
Declination: +38°47'1.17"
Star: Betelgeuse
Distance from Sol: 427 lyrs, 131 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: M2-Red Giant
Right Ascension: 5h55m10.37s
Declination: +7°24'25.35"
Star: Ross 128
Distance from Sol: 10.89 lyrs, 3.338 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: M4n-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 11h47m44.426s
Declination: +0°48'16.96"
Star: Luyten 726-8
Distance from Sol: 8.554 lyrs, 2.632 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: M5.5e-Red Dwarf
M6e-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 1h36m25s
Declination: -18°12'42"
Star: Wolf 359
Distance from Sol: 7.797 lyrs, 2.391 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: M6e-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 10h54m6s
Declination: +7°19'12"
Star: Barnard's Star
Distance from Sol: 5.941 lyrs, 1.821 par
Type of System: Singluar
Color: M4-Red Dwaf
Right Ascension: 17h57m48.515s
Declination: +4°41'35.83"
Star: Aldebaran
Distance from Sol: 65.1 lyrs, 20.0 par
Type of System: Quarternary
Color: K5-Red Giant
M2-Red Dwarf
combined Red Dwarfs
Right Ascension: 4h35m55.237s
Declination: +16°30'33.39"
Star: Altair
Distance from Sol: 16.77 lyrs, 5.143 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: A7-White Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 19h50m47.002s
Declination: +8°52'6.03"
Star: Regulus
Distance from Sol: 77.5 lyrs, 23.8 par
Type of System: Trinary
Color: B7-Blue Main Sequence
K1-Orange Main Sequence
M-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 10h8m22.315s
Declination: +11°58'1.89"
Star: Procyon
Distance from Sol: 11.41 lyrs, 3.497 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: F5-Yellow Main Sequence
A-White Dwarf
Right Ascension: 7h39m18.113s
Declination: +5°13'30.06"
Star: Capella
Distance from Sol: 42.2 lyrs, 12.9 par
Type of System: Quarternary
Color: G5-Yellow Giant
G0-Yellow Giant
M2-Red Dwarf
M4-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 5h16m41.353s
Declination: +45°59'52.9"
Star: Polaris
Distance from Sol: 431 lyrs, 132 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: F7-Yellow Giant
F3-Yellow Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 2h31m48.704s
Declination: +89°15'50.72"
Star: Sol
Distance from Sol: 0 lyrs, 0 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: G2-Yellow Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 0h0m0s
Declination: +0°0'0"
Star: Dubhe
Distance from Sol:
Type of System: Singular
Color: K0-Red Giant
Right Ascension: 11h03m43.7s
Declination: +61°45'03"
Star: Gamma Draconis
Distance from Sol: 101 lyrs, 31 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: K5-Red Giant
Right Ascension: 17h56m36.4s
Declination: +51°29'20"
Star: Episilon Pegasi
Distance from Sol: 522 lyrs, 160 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: K2-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 21h44m11.2s
Declination: +09°52'30"
Star: Beta Cygni
Distance from Sol: 391 lyrs, 120 par
Type of System: Binary
Color: K3-Red Giant
B9.5-Blue Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 19h30m43.3s
Declination: +27°57'35"
Star: Alphard
Distance from Sol: 85 lyrs, 26 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: K3-Red Giant
Right Ascension: 09h 27m 35.2s
Declination: -08°39'31"
Star: Adhara
Distance from Sol: 425 lyrs, 130 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: B2-Blue Giant
Right Ascension: 6h 58m 38s
Declination: -28° 58' 20"
Star: Mirfak
Distance from Sol: 600 lyrs, 184 par
Type of System: Singular
Color: F-Yellow Supergiant
Right Ascension: 3h 24m 19s
Declination: +49° 51' 40"
Star: Delta Serprentis
Distance from Sol: 88 lyrs, 27 par
Type of System: Binary (?)
Color: F0-Yellow Main Sequence
Right Ascension: 15h 34m 48s
Declination: +10° 32' 21"
Does Not Exist (or not found):
Laramis
Ribos
Ikeya
Talania
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Originally posted by Eishtmo:
Wait until you see my 14 Year War timeline.
*antipcipates*
Great work E. Very Interesting and there's a heck of a lot of info there - If you know how to interprit it correctly. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
[This message has been edited by Culloden (edited 10-04-2001).]
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Thats some nice work.
Well done m8!
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Ah, but your task is not yet at an end! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif) Your list doesn't include both the common and Bayer designations for each star. I think this is important, because Freespace uses a mix of the two.
For example, Alpha Centauri is also known as Rigel Kentaurus, Adhara == Epsilon Canis Majoris, Mirfak == Alpha Persei, Beta Aquilae == Alshain, etc...
I assume you already have this site ("http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/constellns/alphalist.html") bookmarked.
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Ah, and I just found Talania! Here it is...
(http://www.lightspring.com/draid/images/talania.jpg)
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Ribos...that name sounds familiar. Ohh yeah! It was that planet in "The Last Starfighter"! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
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Actually, I believe Ribos can be traced back to Star Trek as the likely origin. Of course, I could be wrong.
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Hmmm... Are you sure Antares is in there? I never saw it on the map...
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Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Hmmm... Are you sure Antares is in there? I never saw it on the map...
operation thresher - fs1
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Son of a... and I made it into a vital Sol system! I don't have time to change all the Antares references... was it populated in the game?
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Populated? Likely it was the front line during most of the 14 Year War!
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Isn't Vega a relatively young system? I thought it was supposed to be a star surrounded by a nebulae. Ive heard something about it before, cant remember many details
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I read somewhere that Vega is NOT surrounded by a nebula but by a disc of dust and gas, probably the start of the creation of planets around the star.
I got my source from a book about space.
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If it's a cloud, it probably is what's left of the nebula it came from. Protoplanetary discs are - well - discs.
Oh yeah, you don't mind if I put this in the encyclopedia too, do you E? You will definaetly be credited for them - right at the top of the document where everyone will see your name.
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Doesn't bother me. This is for everyone to use and know.
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Sorry to bump such an old topic, but I figured I might have a couple of snippets of info that may have slight relevance to the topic at hand.
Ribos actually originates from Dr Who, a planet involved in the search for something called the Key to Time (do a websearch for further information) - someone at Volition was probably a fan.
Ikeya is the name of an astronomer, Kaoru Ikeya. Probably most notable for comet hunting (http://www.cosmiverse.com/space03220204.html) - again someone making the game might've come across it in their information gathering and decided to use it. Either that, or Ikeya hasn't discovered this star yet ;)
As far as I can tell, the other two (along with these examples) don't exist. However, there's still plenty of space, even local space, to be searched, and given that there are a couple of hundred years until this fictional universe springs into existance, there's not really anything to stop anyone from keeping these stars fictional.
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Originally posted by Eishtmo
Star: Capella
Distance from Sol: 42.2 lyrs, 12.9 par
Type of System: Quarternary
Color: G5-Yellow Giant
G0-Yellow Giant
M2-Red Dwarf
M4-Red Dwarf
Right Ascension: 5h16m41.353s
Declination: +45°59'52.9"
I read somewhere that the real Capella is a binary star.
Or I could be mistaken
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Ikeya-Zhang is a comet.
Celestia. Gotta love it.
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This looks like a great collection of information, but it seems that FS/FS2 does not follow these stellar attributes very closely. (i.e. Capella)
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Originally posted by killadonuts
I read somewhere that the real Capella is a binary star.
Or I could be mistaken
Capella is a double binary system with two pairs of stars. The two big stars are both yellow giants (about 70 million miles apart).
The other pair are both red dwarfs and are further out from the two main stars than pluto is from sol.
At that kind of distance you might even need a jump node to get there.
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Maybe the other stars were destroyed/used up by the ancients?
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Remember that the Ancients haven't been around for thousands of years, and those other stars existed at least 42 years ago.
The 2 red dwarves orbit at a distance of 0.17ly from the G-class pair, if anyone wants that information. Not a small distance, and would most likely be invisible from close in to Capella (as well as difficult to get to without a jump node, unless they're still within the initial gravitational/subspace envelope of the main Capella binary). Guess that leaves only the binary pair to sort out. Maybe we can fanwank something about one star being behind the other. With a 104 day orbital period it might just be workable ;)
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Originally posted by Eishtmo
Star: Dubhe
Yay! It's spelled correctly!
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Then maybe something happened and they got fused into one big star? ;) Shivan tinkering?
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That's a LOT of tinkering! :D:D
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Or maybe Carl had gas and they got blown out? :p
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I shall now ressurrect an argument I had with many people on the VBB, whether it is called Mirfax or Mirfak, however, I can't remember which side I was on, so without further ado...
IT'S MIRFAX!!!