At the moment I'm working on a scene in POV-ray, a visualisation of a comet strike in the Epsilon Eridani system. For the star field I extracted the star positions and spectral types out of stars.dat (in Visual Basic) and converted this to a format which can be accessed in POV-ray to produce a "realistic" star system with the star positions correct as viewed from Eps Eri.
However before I upload this to my deviantART site I'd like to know some stuff - basically is this an ok use of stars.dat and what credits do I need to put with the image?
Thanks,
Chaos
Usage of stars.dat outside Celestia
boo wrote:Are you using the original stars.dat that comes with the program? If yes then you might think of using the 50mb stars.dat add-on - a LOT more stars, hehe.
Uh, it already takes about half an hour to create the image with the stars.dat database as it is...
As far as I can see in the documentation, it should be ok if I state that the starfield was generated using the database in Celestia which was derived from the ESA Hipparcos database. If this is incorrect, please inform me.
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chaos syndrome wrote:As far as I can see in the documentation, it should be ok if I state that the starfield was generated using the database in Celestia which was derived from the ESA Hipparcos database. If this is incorrect, please inform me.
I certainly have no problem with you using the Celestia star database in this way. Some credit would be nice, but not required.
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