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I have alot of Star Trek star charts where it shows a star, or star system, where no real star exists. How, in a stc or other file, would I do this?
Ex-If I follow a line from Sol to 59 Vir, then 23 Ly further, that's where Romulus should be (according to the 2d star chart). But there is no star even close to that location.

Thanx
Tim

You really need a 3D map

If it's directly behind 59 Vir when seen from the Earth, that means it has the same Right Ascension and Declination coordinates, but its distance is greater.

There are lots of stars that aren't defined in Celestia. A star can be added by defining it in an STC catalog file.

What you could do is look at a standard 2D map of the sky and pick a star that's in the vicinity of 59 Vir but which hasn't had its distance measured. Define it in an STC catalog file with an appropriate radius.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/STC_File
describes some of the parameters used in a STar Catalog file. Celestia/data/nearstars.stc has lots of examples.

Memory Alpha suggests that the intermediate star is EPS Phoenicis (aka NLTT 423) rather than 59 Vir.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Romulus ... mical_Data

This was posted a while back in the Purgatory section, perhaps it will help you find what you're looking for...

Topic: Planets in Star Trek and Their Positions Around REAL Stars
http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8165

I did look at that listing. A few of the Trek stars had no real star name, only the class and distance. So I'm doing best guess with the Star Trek Star Chart book. Running a line from Sol through the closest real star then to the fictional star, using the scale for light years on the map. Of course that only gives me a 2D measure. That will have to do.
Thanx
Tim