Rectangular Star Clusters?

Tharghana · Post #1by **Tharghana** » 09.01.2008, 00:28

The Globular Cluster Generator makes Rectangular Star clusters. Dose anyone know why it dose this? I can find my clusters but they are in a rectangle, in stead of a sphere.

Post #2by **selden** » 09.01.2008, 12:19

What Globular Cluster generator are you referring to?
Who is the author and where did you get it?

danielj · Post #3by **danielj** » 09.01.2008, 13:42

I think it??s Rassilon??s.But before we can improve the rendering of globular clusters,we need first a catalog,because I have M4 in my Celestia 1.5.0 pre5,but the program didn??t recognize if I type it.So we need a stc or ssc file,FIRST!
The only way to get to M4 is to select a star (PSR 1620B-26) and going far away from it to see the entire cluster...

danielj · Post #4by **danielj** » 09.01.2008, 22:09

There is a catalog in Selden??s Ball,but I couldn??t transform it in a .dsc file.It only saves in .txt format.What could be done?

Post #5by **t00fri** » 09.01.2008, 22:31

danielj wrote:There is a catalog in Selden??s Ball,but I couldn??t transform it in a .dsc file.It only saves in .txt format.What could be done?

Hi hi, what is Selden's Ball?

F.

danielj · Post #6by **danielj** » 09.01.2008, 23:43

It??s a site:
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/

Post #7by **selden** » 10.01.2008, 00:18

Daniel,

Fridger is picking on your spelling.
*frowns at Fridger*

I'm not sure which catalog you're referring to.
I recall having several Messier catalog Addons, but they're Zip files.

If your system saves something as a .txt file, you can just rename it so it has the appropriate extension (.dsc). Windows will ask if you're sure you really want to do that. Tell it you do.

buggs_moran · Post #8by **buggs_moran** » 10.01.2008, 17:09

I do believe he means the one from this post
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320

http://www.celestiaproject.net/~rassilon/generator.zip

BobHegwood · Post #9by **BobHegwood** » 10.01.2008, 19:15

t00fri wrote:Hi hi, what is Selden's Ball?

F.

I believe that this should be an annual event in order the THANK the
poor, under-appreciated Selden for everything that he has to put up
with here. :wink:

Tharghana · Post #10by **Tharghana** » 10.01.2008, 21:31

Yes I mean Rassilon's cluster generator.

Post #11by **selden** » 10.01.2008, 21:34

I just gave the program a try. While the distributions i was getting weren't square, they certainly weren't spherical, either.

Someone will have to write a better program, methinks.