Celestia 1.5.0 prerelease 6

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ajtribick
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Post #21by ajtribick » 25.01.2008, 13:05

bdm wrote:There is a duplicate star that needs to be removed.

* Gliese 661
* HIP 84140

These are the same star, as verified by the Nearby Stars Database (http://nstars.nau.edu/).

HIP 84140 is rendered properly; there are two stars orbiting each other (and very nice they look too in this version).
Gliese 661 is not rendered correctly; it appears to be one star in an orbit around nothing in particular.
The two systems are about 1/4 light year apart.
According to the Nearby Stars database, this binary star is located 6.39713 parsecs from Sol (20.865 light years). This is the distance that Gliese 661 has from Sol according to Celestia.

Confirmed - the star is defined both in visualbins.stc and nearstars.stc.


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