CCC planet and system discussion

[KathTheDragon]

Can I have a copy of the data for the CCC system?

[Pole, the]

I made a sort of star map by taking pictures of the sky from the CCCP

[Lyhoko Leaci]

CCCP, not СССР.

As of now, I haven't finished putting the data into Celestia yet, I only have the first 7 planets (and no moons for the outer ones).

[zompist]

Where did you put the CCC star? Did you use an existing star?

[Lyhoko Leaci]

I made a new star, and stuck it 74 light years away from Earth.

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300600 "CCC star" {
	RA      245.3    # in fractional degrees, 0-360
	Dec     25.4    # in fractional degrees, -90 to + 90
	Distance 74
	SpectralType "G2V"
	AbsMag 4.65
}

[KathTheDragon]

*now needs to remind herself how to add stars.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

Copy the stuff in the code box in my previous post into a .stc file and put it somewhere in the extras folder.

Also note:
I have downloaded a pack that includes a lot more stars that can be found here: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/creat ... _1.4.0.zip
It includes around 2 million stars from the Tycho catalog, while Celestia on its own only comes with around 100,000 stars or so from the Hipparcos catalog.

[zompist]

74 ly seems rather close to Earth... if we take this thing into the space opera era, Sol will be in the neighborhood.

Which is OK, I guess, but if insane golems take over the Earth in AD 2800, I'll hold you responsible.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

If I move it too far away, then there won't be as many stars nearby due to the natural star charts being (roughly) centered around Earth. I also have 800,000 stars added to the Small Magellanic Cloud, I could move the CCC system there, though then the Milky Way would feature predominantly in the sky, and they could run afoul of the Ancaron Empire...

[zompist]

A location in the SMC sounds pretty cool.

However, redoing all those maps sounds like a lot of work. Unless the program has a better method for producing a star map from a given point?

[Lyhoko Leaci]

It's relatively simple to make the map, at least to the point that I have reached, as all I do is point the camera in a specific direction and take pictures.