Page 1 of 1

Gaia DR2 - Open Star Clusters

Posted: 28.01.2023, 22:12
by Gurren Lagann
Gaia DR2 - Open Star Clusters
200K+ stars in 1400+ star clusters
Stock2.png
The Stock 2 star cluster.

Here we go, slowly implementing Gaia's interesting regions into Celestia! This time, we take a trip to the various open star clusters across the galaxy.
Huge thanks to Sirius_Alpha in programming the stars for the addon! I usually do large datasets myself, but Excel crashed quite a few times to the point i had to ask for help! Haha...

215,327 stars in 1481 star clusters
Data source: https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A A/633/A99
Download:
GaiaDR2-OpenStarClusters.zip
The addon itself.
(7.42 MiB) Downloaded 265 times

Posted: 29.01.2023, 23:13
by Sirius_Alpha
Some more screenshots. These were already shared on the Celestia Discord but may as well make them more public for the wider forum audience.

DoubleClusterPerseus.png
Double Cluster in Perseus.


NGC2168.png
NGC 2168 and NGC 2159 in the background.