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OK, there's an angle (or two) I can't find the correct value for. The Sag A* black hole lies in the centre of the galaxy. I had assumed it was on the galactic plane. Sol is about 50LY above the galactic plane, and about 26673LY from Sag A*, right? So it should be well inside the volume of the main g...

Well I reckon if there was something glaringly wrong someone would have at least queried it. I'll go ahead with this info, and share the results in a day or two.

As a side project I thought it might be interesting to use a 3D viewer to display ALL of the stars.dat file contained within an overlay of the 3D shape of the galaxy. I was going to create the latter by machine-generating a 3D shell of artificial stars, spaced every 100x100 LY (or whatever seems to ...

Thanks, I'm starting to use it now.

Tried, yes, succeeded, no. I dealt with the first two compilation errors but then hit "Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!" As Qt <4.0 is ancient history I gave up at that point. Haven't looked at John V.V.'s Q...

I am trying to get hold of a startextdump binary that works under either Debian stretch or Wine. Don't mind which. The handful of pointers I have found are so old the links are broken. Celestia itself is behaving perfectly, but I can't find [either of these tools] Can anyone help out? Thank you very...