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Title: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: adi11235 on January 06, 2007, 09:25:53 pm

I thought I'd give you an idea of the scale of the FreeSpace universe.

Here is my small attempt with Celestia. I listed all the distances I could find in light years.

Several stars cannot be identified in the current databases. If an unidentified star is a node, I also cannot tell the distance between it and another known star (Since Vasuda is unknown, I can't tell the distance between it and Deneb, for instance).


So here are the mystery stars:

Vasuda
Laramis (maybe it's misspelled)
Tau Sigma (probably not a full star name)
Delphi
Ribos (It looks like a fictional star from the Dr. Who universe)
Cygnux X1*


* Here, there is a special case as it does not exist in the Celestia database. Cygnux X1 is a known binary system involving a blue giant and a black hole that is about 8000 ly away from Sol. Well, I could use data to triangulate its distance to Polaris, but that would be too much work.


(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9500/nodemapwithdistancesfreum9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Now, can someone post that on the wiki? I don't really know how to work with it. Thanks.


So what do you think? Any additional info you might have about the layout of the Freespace universe?

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: Unknown Target on January 06, 2007, 09:57:53 pm

Nice.

Didn't that 3D nodemap have real-world distances with it?

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: Snail on January 07, 2007, 03:02:13 am

Vasuda is Beta Hydri.

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: karajorma on January 07, 2007, 05:34:33 am

Quote from: Snail on January 07, 2007, 03:02:13 am

Vasuda is Beta Hydri.

That's fanon.


As are half the stars on that map for that matter. :D

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: Snail on January 07, 2007, 09:15:02 am

Well Goober said so. Umph.

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: karajorma on January 07, 2007, 09:24:15 am

He's not the boss of me.

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: Bob-san on January 07, 2007, 10:02:03 am

Do you have a larger version of that? I'll find the map helpful though bigger is better. Save as a PNG next time, please!

Title: Re: Revised Freespace Star Map
Post by: Goober5000 on January 07, 2007, 02:03:10 pm

Quote from: Snail on January 07, 2007, 09:15:02 am

Well Goober said so. Umph.

I said it was fanon, too. :)