Orion in 3-d
Posted: 21.06.2005, 06:20
by draper10701
Ive been all over the place (on the web),trying to find out a good way to depict the stars of a constellation as they truly lie in three-dimensional space,not just the line of sight formation that we recognise .For the most part I'm drawing blanks.I found something called "virtual orion"which seemed to be what I'm talking about ,but all the links weree dead.Is there any way to use celestia to do this?
Re: Orion in 3-d
Posted: 21.06.2005, 07:20
by t00fri
draper10701 wrote:Ive been all over the place (on the web),trying to find out a good way to depict the stars of a constellation as they truly lie in three-dimensional space,not just the line of sight formation that we recognise .For the most part I'm drawing blanks.I found something called "virtual orion"which seemed to be what I'm talking about ,but all the links weree dead.Is there any way to use celestia to do this?
Since Celestia uses the Hipparcos star data base, there is information about the distances of the stars included. Since the asterisms in Celestia are "attached" to the stars, the constallation figures can be viewed in 3D.
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